The Best Oscar Wilde quotes

Every woman is a rebel. — Oscar Wilde

Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you. — Oscar Wilde

I prefer women with a past. They’re always so damned amusing to talk to. — Oscar Wilde

A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her. — Oscar Wilde

Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself. — Oscar Wilde

We women adore failures. They lean on us. — Oscar Wilde

Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood. — Oscar Wilde

A woman who cannot make her mistakes charming, is only a female. — Oscar Wilde

I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting. — Oscar Wilde

Every woman is wrong until she cries. — Oscar Wilde

It is only very ugly or very beautiful women who ever hide their faces . — Oscar Wilde

I like men who have a future and women who have a past. — Oscar Wilde

There are only two kinds of women, the plain and the coloured. — Oscar Wilde

If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it. — Oscar Wilde

Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping. — Oscar Wilde

Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones. — Oscar Wilde

Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree. — Oscar Wilde

Men as a rule love with their eyes, woman with their ears. — Oscar Wilde

Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat. — Oscar Wilde

The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes. — Oscar Wilde

Bigamy is having one wife too many. monogamy is the same — Oscar Wilde

She is a peacock in everything but beauty! — Oscar Wilde

They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. — Oscar Wilde

A man who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in that position. — Oscar Wilde

Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead. — Oscar Wilde

I didn’t have a life until I went up onstage. — Oscar Wilde

Life is a great disappointment. — Oscar Wilde

She lives the poetry she cannot write. — Oscar Wilde

The artistic life is a long, lovely suicide. — Oscar Wilde

Life would be dull without them. — Oscar Wilde

Life imitates art more than art imitates Life. — Oscar Wilde

Live the wonderful life that is in you. — Oscar Wilde

Life is like a box of terrible analogies. — Oscar Wilde

Life is a nightmare that prevents one from sleeping. — Oscar Wilde

The secret of life is in art. — Oscar Wilde

A well–tied tie is the first serious step in life. — Oscar Wilde

In married life three is company and two none. — Oscar Wilde

One’s only real life is the life one never leads. — Oscar Wilde

Experience is a question of instinct about life. — Oscar Wilde

Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it. — Oscar Wilde

One should absorb the color of life. — Oscar Wilde

I gave my genius to my life, but my talent to my art. — Oscar Wilde

Life is too short to be taken seriously. — Oscar Wilde

For one moment our lives met, our souls touched. — Oscar Wilde

Biography lends to death a new terror. — Oscar Wilde

He hadn’t a single redeeming vice. — Oscar Wilde

History is only gossip. — Oscar Wilde

Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing. — Oscar Wilde

The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it. — Oscar Wilde

I am the only person In the world I should lIke to know thoroughly. — Oscar Wilde

America is not a country, it is a world. — Oscar Wilde

The world belongs to the discontented. — Oscar Wilde

The only horrible thing in the world is ennui. — Oscar Wilde

The true mystery of The world is The visible, not The invisible. — Oscar Wilde

Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not. — Oscar Wilde

Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities. — Oscar Wilde

The world is made by the singer for the dreamer. — Oscar Wilde

We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell. — Oscar Wilde

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. — Oscar Wilde

The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork. — Oscar Wilde

I must remember that a good friend is a new world. — Oscar Wilde

The great events of the world take place in the brain. — Oscar Wilde

He hasn’t an enemy in the world, and none of his friend like him. — Oscar Wilde

The man who can dominate a London dinner–table can dominate the world. — Oscar Wilde

Art is the most intense form of individualism that the world has known. — Oscar Wilde

I walk the world in wonder. — Oscar Wilde

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast. — Oscar Wilde

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. — Oscar Wilde

The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it. — Oscar Wilde

The universe is God. I am God so that means I am the universe. — Oscar Wilde

The only beautiful things are the things that do not concern us. — Oscar Wilde

She doth mean the earth to me! By earth, I actually mean dust. — Oscar Wilde

Nature constantly imitates art. — Oscar Wilde

The best people to work for are me, myself and I. — Oscar Wilde

It is awfully hard work doing nothing. — Oscar Wilde

Hard work is amply the refuge of those who have nothing to do. — Oscar Wilde

Bad artists always admire each others work. — Oscar Wilde

It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done. — Oscar Wilde

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you. — Oscar Wilde

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works. — Oscar Wilde

A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction. — Oscar Wilde

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art. — Oscar Wilde

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. — Oscar Wilde

Work is the curse of the drinking class. — Oscar Wilde

Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece? — Oscar Wilde

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight. — Oscar Wilde

People are either charming or tedious. — Oscar Wilde

The one charm about the past is that it is the past. — Oscar Wilde

Cleverness becomes a public nuisance. — Oscar Wilde

It is only the modern that ever becomes old–fashioned. — Oscar Wilde

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. — Oscar Wilde

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. — Oscar Wilde

Duty is what one expects from others. — Oscar Wilde

Cultivated leisure is the aim of man. — Oscar Wilde

Millionaire models are rare enough; but model millionaires are rarer still! — Oscar Wilde

The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious. — Oscar Wilde

God and other artists are always a little obscure. — Oscar Wilde

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic. — Oscar Wilde

A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public to him are non–existent. — Oscar Wilde

When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself. — Oscar Wilde

The true artist is known by what he annexes, and he annexes everything. — Oscar Wilde

No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything. — Oscar Wilde

When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money. — Oscar Wilde

Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another. — Oscar Wilde

No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. — Oscar Wilde

You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages. — Oscar Wilde

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. — Oscar Wilde

The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art’s aim. — Oscar Wilde

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. — Oscar Wilde

Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last. — Oscar Wilde

For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners. — Oscar Wilde

The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous. — Oscar Wilde

An actor is part illusionist, part artist, part ham. — Oscar Wilde

A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection. — Oscar Wilde

The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist. — Oscar Wilde

It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes. — Oscar Wilde

It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression. — Oscar Wilde

Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets. — Oscar Wilde

Artists reproduce themselves or each other, with wearisome iteration. But criticism is always moving on, and the critic is always developing. — Oscar Wilde

I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream. — Oscar Wilde