Oscar Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright who lived from 1854 to 1900. In the early 1890s he was one of the most popular playwrights in London.
This is a collection of quotes by Oscar Wilde.
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Oscar WildeAfter a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.
Oscar WildeAll art is quite useless.
Oscar WildeAll bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
Oscar WildeAll great ideas are dangerous.
Oscar WildeBe yourself; everyone else is already taken.
Oscar WildeDeath must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
Oscar WildeDiscontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
Oscar WildeExperience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.
Oscar WildeGod and other artists are always a little obscure.
Oscar WildeI am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
Oscar WildeI can resist everything except temptation.
Oscar WildeI like men who have a future and women who have a past.
Oscar WildeIrony is wasted on the stupid.
Oscar WildeNowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Oscar WildePersonally, I have a great admiration for stupidity.
Oscar WildeThe artistic life is a long, lovely suicide.
Oscar WildeThe best way to make children good is to make them happy.
Oscar WildeThe bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.
Oscar WildeThe greatest of all sins is stupidity.
Oscar WildeThe old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
Oscar WildeThe only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.
Oscar WildeThe trouble with socialism is that it takes up too many evenings.
Oscar WildeThe ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.
Oscar WildeThere is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
Oscar WildeThere is no sin except stupidity.
Oscar WildeTruth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
Oscar WildeWe are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar WildeWhenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
Oscar WildeWhenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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