Oscar Wilde Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

523 Famous Quotes by Oscar Wilde
“Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.”
Truth Quotes
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
Truth Quotes
“Love is saying 'I feel differently' instead of 'You're wrong.'”
Understanding Quotes
“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
Understanding Quotes
“The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.”
Understanding Quotes
“When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.”
Violence Quotes
“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
Vision Quotes
“The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.”
Wisdom Quotes
“In examinations, the foolish ask questions the wise cannot answer.”
Wisdom Quotes
“How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.”
Women Quotes
“I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.”
Writing Quotes
“I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about.”
Writing Quotes
“An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young”
Youth Quotes
“The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action”
Action Quotes
“I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.”
Actors and acting Quotes
“I love acting. It is so much more real than life.”
Actors and acting Quotes
“The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.”
Advice Quotes
“The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.”
Age Quotes
“Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot.”
Age Quotes
“Men become old, but they never become good”
Ageing Quotes
“Ambition is the last refuge of failure.”
Ambition Quotes
“Nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude”
Apologies Quotes
“It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances”
Appearance Quotes
“The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.”
Appreciation Quotes
“I sometimes think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability”
Appreciation Quotes