Oscar Wilde Quotes (126+)

Enjoy the best Oscar Wilde Quotes. Quotations by Oscar Wilde (Irish Poet and Playwright)
Oct 16, 1854 - Nov 30, 1900

A poet can survive anything but a misprint.

Life is too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

One can survive everything nowadays, except death.

About the Author

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) was a brilliant Irish writer and a central figure in the Aesthetic movement. Famous for his wit, flamboyant style, and sharp social commentary in plays like 'The Importance of Being Earnest' and his novel 'The Picture of Dorian Gray.'