172 Quotes By Oscar Wilde


To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
Oscar Wilde on intelligence

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
Oscar Wilde on learning

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
Oscar Wilde on life

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Oscar Wilde on life

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life now that I am old I know that it is.
Oscar Wilde on life

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Oscar Wilde on life

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
Oscar Wilde on life

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
Oscar Wilde on life

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
Oscar Wilde on life

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
Oscar Wilde on life

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
Oscar Wilde on life

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
Oscar Wilde on life

I put all my genius into my life I put only my talent into my works.
Oscar Wilde on life

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
Oscar Wilde on life

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
Oscar Wilde on life

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
Oscar Wilde on life

In married life three is company and two none.
Oscar Wilde on life

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
Oscar Wilde on life

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Oscar Wilde on love

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Oscar Wilde on love