Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) didn’t just write plays, he dropped truth bombs disguised as one-liners. From The Picture of Dorian Gray to cocktail-party comebacks, Wilde’s quotes are endlessly quotable for a reason. Whether you're hunting for his best quotes about life, love, books, or society, this list has you covered with some of the most famous and funniest Oscar Wilde quotes ever written.
Famous Oscar Wilde Quotes
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all
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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
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Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
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Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
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Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
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Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
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Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.
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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
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Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.
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Oscar Wilde Life Quotes
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
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Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.
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You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
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I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.
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A good friend will always stab you in the front.
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Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
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Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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Yes: I am a dreamer. For 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.
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
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It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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Oscar Wilde Love Quotes
One should always be in love.
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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
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Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.
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Who, being loved, is poor?
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Hearts are made to be broken.
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The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
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If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.
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The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
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You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.
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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
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