Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 5

• Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.

  Oscar Wilde

  Party, Speak No Evil, Cocktails

  36 Copy quote

• Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

  Oscar Wilde

  Eye, Men, History

  "The Soul of Man Under Socialism". Essay by Oscar Wilde, 1891.

  90 Copy quote

• Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Beautiful, Death

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.205, Wordsworth Editions

  198 Copy quote

• I have a simple taste, only the best.

  Oscar Wilde

  Simple, Luxury, Taste

  72 Copy quote

• I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself. Sometimes I am so clever I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

  Oscar Wilde

  Clever, Long, Hearing

  Oscar Wilde, Alvin Redman (1959). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.143, Courier Corporation

  52 Copy quote

• The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?

  Oscar Wilde

  Stars, Moon, Heaven

  Letter to Alfred Douglas, Jan. - Mar. 1897

  235 Copy quote

• Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

  Oscar Wilde

  Genius, Mediocrity, Tribute

  31 Copy quote

• A man who takes himself too seriously will find that no one else takes him seriously.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men

  58 Copy quote

• The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.

  Oscar Wilde

  Feelings, World, Deeds

  "God Hides in Plain Sight: How to See the Sacred in a Chaotic World". Book by Dean Nelson, September 1, 2009.

  35 Copy quote

• If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. but if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly. If he shut the doors of the house of mourning against me, I would move back again and again and beg to be admitted so that I might share in what I was entitled to share. If he thought me unworthy, unfit to weep with him, I should feel it as the most poignant humiliation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Friendship, Moving, Doors

  99 Copy quote

• To live in this world is a rare thing; most people just exist.

  Oscar Wilde

  People, World, This World

  33 Copy quote

• The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.

  Oscar Wilde

  Oysters, World, Table Manners

  24 Copy quote

• Men as a rule love with their eyes, woman with their ears.

  Oscar Wilde

  Eye, Men, Ears

  27 Copy quote

• We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. We all have clouds above us but some see their silver linings. We all face difficulties but some of us are grateful that they aren't worse.

  Oscar Wilde

  Gratitude, Stars, Grateful

  11 Copy quote

• Love is a misunderstanding between two fools.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Dream, Two

  62 Copy quote

• A mask tells us more than a face.

  Oscar Wilde

  Faces, Mask

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.848, GENERAL PRESS

  53 Copy quote

• Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Oscar Wilde (1947). “The Happy Prince”, p.16, New Line Publishing

  143 Copy quote

• Circumstances should never alter principles!

  Oscar Wilde

  Principles, Should, Circumstances

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “An Ideal Husband”, p.33, Sheba Blake Publishing

  35 Copy quote

• Sooner or later we have all to pay for what we do.

  Oscar Wilde

  Pay, Sooner Or Later

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.462, Delphi Classics

  54 Copy quote

• Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Freedom

  'The Soul of Man under Socialism'

  132 Copy quote

• One should always be a little improbable.

  Oscar Wilde

  Littles, Consciousness, Should

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Miscellanies”, p.173, Oscar Wilde

  14 Copy quote

• Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

  Oscar Wilde

  Honesty, Appearance

  31 Copy quote

• One's dreams must be big enough so as not to lose sight of them.

  Oscar Wilde

  Dream, Sight, Enough

  12 Copy quote

• To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

  Oscar Wilde

  Future, Expectations, Unexpected

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “An Ideal Husband: Second Edition, Revised”, p.93, A&C Black

  19 Copy quote

• To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.

  Oscar Wilde

  Adversity, Men, Privilege

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.730, GENERAL PRESS

  34 Copy quote

You May Also Like:

Alfred Douglas

Edgar Allan Poe

Mark Twain

Charles Dickens

George Bernard Shaw

James Joyce

William Shakespeare

Jane Austen