Quotes by Oscar Wilde
The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.
- Oscar Wilde
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
- Oscar Wilde
I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability.
- Oscar Wilde
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
- Oscar Wilde
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
- Oscar Wilde
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
- Oscar Wilde
One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. If she tells that, she’ll tell anything.
- Oscar Wilde
Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
- Oscar Wilde
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
- Oscar Wilde
Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
- Oscar Wilde
The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.
― Oscar Wilde
One’s past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
- Oscar Wilde
After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relatives.
- Oscar Wilde
One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything, except a good reputation.
- Oscar Wilde
Hearts live by being wounded.
- Oscar Wilde
The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously and have somebody find out.
- Oscar Wilde
God’s eternal laws are kind- and break the heart of stone.
– Oscar Wilde
The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.
― Oscar Wilde
If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.
- Oscar Wilde