Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- “Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.”
by Oscar Wilde - “There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
by Oscar Wilde - “Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.”
by Oscar Wilde - “In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.”
by Oscar Wilde - “When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.”
by Oscar Wilde - “Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.”
by Oscar Wilde - “Biography lends to death a new terror.”
by Oscar Wilde - “There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.”
by Oscar Wilde - “Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.”
by Oscar Wilde - “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.”
by Oscar Wilde - “Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.”
by Oscar Wilde - “Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.”
by Oscar Wilde - “No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.”
by Oscar Wilde - “Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.”
by Oscar Wilde - “True friends stab you in the front.”
by Oscar Wilde - “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.”
by Oscar Wilde - “The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.”
by Oscar Wilde - “An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.”
by Oscar Wilde - “Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”
by Oscar Wilde - “The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.”
by Oscar Wilde