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629 Powerful Oscar Wilde Quotes to Inspire You

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

Oscar Wilde

Love, Defects, Irony, Gender, Relationships

2. “Biography lends to death a new terror.”

Oscar Wilde

Biography, Death, Irony, Life, Reflection

3. “Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.”

Oscar Wilde

Government, Irony, Politics, Society, Observation

4. “I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.”

Oscar Wilde

Art, Admiration, Love, Irony, Relationships

5. “The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.”

Oscar Wilde

Advice, Irony, Society, Communication, Reflection

6. “Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.”

Oscar Wilde

Ambition, Failure, Irony, Society, Critique

7. “Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.”

Oscar Wilde

Common Sense, Regret, Irony, Life, Reflection

8. “Charity creates a multitude of sins.”

Oscar Wilde

Charity, Irony, Morality, Society, Critique

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

Oscar Wilde

Art, Individualism, Intensity, Expression, Creativity

10. “Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.”

Oscar Wilde

Children, Parents, Love, Judgment, Relationships

11. “The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.”

Oscar Wilde

World, Theater, Irony, Society, Observation

12. “Writing bores me so.”

Oscar Wilde

Writing, Boredom, Irony, Creativity, Expression

13. “One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.”

Oscar Wilde

Past, Identity, Judgment, Philosophy, Individualism

14. “I have never given adoration to any body except myself.”

Oscar Wilde

Adoration, Self-Love, Irony, Individualism, Philosophy

15. “Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.”

Oscar Wilde

Ornament, Aesthetics, Irony, Art, Society

16. “One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.”

Oscar Wilde

Fairness, Strategy, Irony, Society, Life

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

Oscar Wilde

Society, Individualism, Philosophy, Irony, Perception

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

Oscar Wilde

Morality, Attitude, Irony, Society, Philosophy

19. “Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.”

Oscar Wilde

Pessimism, Choice, Irony, Human Nature, Philosophy

20. “I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.”

Oscar Wilde

Advice, Irony, Communication, Society, Reflection

21. “Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.”

Oscar Wilde

Goodness, Temptation, Irony, Nature, Society

22. “Alas, I am dying beyond my means.”

Oscar Wilde

Death, Irony, Existence, Philosophy, Society

23. “If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.”

Oscar Wilde

Pretension, Irony, Optimism, Society, Philosophy

24. “In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives.”

Oscar Wilde

Art, Spirituality, Philosophy, Irony, Perception

25. “He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.”

Oscar Wilde

Enemies, Friendship, Irony, Relationships, Society

26. “London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don't know.”

Oscar Wilde

London, Fog, Irony, Society, Observation