Oscar Wilde Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

“I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”

“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”

“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”

“There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.”

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

“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”

“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”

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

“I have nothing to declare except my genius.”

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”

“With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?”

“To define is to limit.”

“I like men who have a future and women who have a past.”

“I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”

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

“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”

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

“A good friend will always stab you in the front.”

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