Oscar Wilde Quotes (126+)

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

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

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

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

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

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

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

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

I can resist everything except temptation.

The aim of life is self-development. To realize ones nature perfectly that is what each of us is here 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.

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.'