Quotes by Oscar Wilde
I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.
- Oscar Wilde
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
- Oscar Wilde
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
- Oscar Wilde
The one charm of the past is that it is the past.
- Oscar Wilde
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
- Oscar Wilde
The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.
- Oscar Wilde
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.
- Oscar Wilde
To love oneself is the beginning of a life- long romance.
- Oscar Wilde
Soccer is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.
- Oscar Wilde
One should always play fair when one has the winning cards.
- Oscar Wilde
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
- Oscar Wilde
A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.
- Oscar Wilde
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
- Oscar Wilde
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde
The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
- Oscar Wilde
The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
- Oscar Wilde