Popular Oscar Wilde's Quotes And Sayings

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well. If it is worth having, it is worth waiting for. If it is worth attaining, it is worth fighting for. If it is worth experiencing, it is worth putting aside time for.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

It's beauty that captures your attention. personality which captures your heart.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Placerea este testul naturii, semnul ei aprobator.

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive

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

Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to.

The answers are all out there, we just need to ask the right questions.

With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.

God grant me the serenity to accept that people are ignorant, the courage to uphold the law when I'm hostile, & the wisdom to realize that murder is illegal.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise

A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.

Life is too short to be taken seriously.

The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one.

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Marriage is a long, dull meal with dessert served at the beginning.

Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.

Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.

Cats are put on earth to remind us that not everything has a purpose.

If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.

To look at a thing is very different from seeing it.

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Learn to differentiate between ignorance and stupidity.

Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.

The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.

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

In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.

Some people always know the price, but not the value

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

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

There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.

I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.

They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.

To define is to limit.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.

I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.

The only one you need in your life is that person who shows you he needs you in his.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.

Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life.

Nature: a place where birds fly around uncooked

If you cannot prove a man wrong, don't panic. You can always call him names.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

I have no objection to anyone's sex life as long as they don't practice it in the street and frighten the horses.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception.

Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.

Men as a rule love with their eyes, woman with their ears.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.

True contentment is not having everything, but in being satisfied with everything you have.

I never put off till tomorrow what I can do the day after.

Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.

Don't use big words. They mean so little.

Those who have much are often greedy. Those who have little always share.

Sometimes, the unnecessary is necessary.

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Circumstances should never alter principles!

In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

Simple pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world.

Just be your self. Everybody else is already taken.

Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.

It is perfectly possible to get what you think you want and be miserable. It's possible too, to never get it but deeply enjoy the process of trying. In this world, there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

I beg your pardon I didn't recognise you - I've changed a lot.

Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

The only way to get rid of tempation is to yeild to it.

The best revenge is to live well.

The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.

Love is like a war; easy to start but hard to end and you never know where it might take you.

Be moderate in all things, including moderation.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

You are Beautiful when you are happy

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

Children start out loving their parents, but as they grow older and discover their parents are human, they become judgmental. And sometimes, when they mature, they forgive their parents, especially when they discover they are also human.

Always be a little unexpected.

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