Oscar Wilde

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

Oscar Wilde

Human

Various

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade name of the firm, that is all."

Oscar Wilde

Courage and Fear

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination."

Oscar Wilde

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 6)

"I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world."

Oscar Wilde

Human

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him."

Oscar Wilde

Life and Death

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar."

Oscar Wilde

Life and Death

Various

Rating: 3.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event."

Oscar Wilde

Time and Passing

Rating: 3.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious."

Oscar Wilde

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Work is the curse of the drinking classes."

Oscar Wilde

Health and Alcohol

Work and Laziness

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality."

Oscar Wilde "Lady Windermere's Fan"

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."

Oscar Wilde

Happiness

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects."

Oscar Wilde

Intellect, Judgement

Woman and Man

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Punctuality is the thief of time."

Oscar Wilde

Time and Passing

Rating: 5.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her."

Oscar Wilde

Happiness

Love

Woman and Man

Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 6)

"Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one."

Oscar Wilde

Friendship and Hostility

Wit and Humor

Rating: 4.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."

Oscar Wilde "The Picture of Dorian Gray"

Art and Culture

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 7.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes his biography."

Oscar Wilde

Loyalty and Betrayal

Talent and Genius

Rating: 7.50 (Number of Voters: 6)

"Illusion is the first of all pleasures."

Oscar Wilde

Joy and Sadness

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 6)

"To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance."

Oscar Wilde

Egoism

Love

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death."

Oscar Wilde

Life and Death

Love

Rating: 5.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."

Oscar Wilde

Forgiveness

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."

Oscar Wilde "Lady Windermere's Fan"

Friendship and Hostility

Woman and Man

Rating: 3.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The one duty we owe to history is to re-write it."

Oscar Wilde

History and Nations

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life."

Oscar Wilde "The Decay of Lying"

Art and Culture

Life and Death

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it."

Oscar Wilde "An Ideal Husband"

Marriage

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand."

Oscar Wilde

Woman and Man

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Genius lasts longer than beauty."

Oscar Wilde

Beauty and Ugliness

Talent and Genius

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"No man is rich enough to buy back his own past."

Oscar Wilde "An Ideal Husband"

Richness and Money

Time and Passing

Rating: 5.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."

Oscar Wilde

Egoism

Rating: 6.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them."

Oscar Wilde

Family and Loneliness

Youth and Age

Rating: 5.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it."

Oscar Wilde

History and Nations

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."

Oscar Wilde "The Picture of Dorian Gray"

Success and Fame

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on."

Oscar Wilde

Manners and Ethics

Woman and Man

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken."

Oscar Wilde "De Profundis"

Sorrow and Nostalgia

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do."

Oscar Wilde

Work and Laziness

Rating: 5.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones."

Oscar Wilde "The Picture of Dorian Gray"

Friendship and Hostility

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse."

Oscar Wilde "De Profundis"

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"To define is to limit."

Oscar Wilde

Various

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up."

Oscar Wilde

Egoism

Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"A poet can survive everything but a misprint."

Oscar Wilde

Art and Culture

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed."

Oscar Wilde "The Picture of Dorian Gray"

Marriage

Woman and Man

Rating: 5.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly."

Oscar Wilde "The Picture of Dorian Gray"

Woman and Man

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing."

Oscar Wilde "The Picture of Dorian Gray"

Richness and Money

Various

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read."

Oscar Wilde

Art and Culture

Various

Rating: 7.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist."

Oscar Wilde

Art and Culture

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Bigamy is having a wife too many, monogamy is the same."

Oscar Wilde

Marriage

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer."

Oscar Wilde

Education

Question and Problem

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

Oscar Wilde "Lady Windermere's Fan"

Dreams and Desires

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 3)