Oscar Wilde Quotes

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde

Truth, Simple, Pure

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
Oscar Wilde

Women, Men, Tired

Everything popular is wrong.
Oscar Wilde

Everything, Wrong, Popular

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
Oscar Wilde

Past, Enough, Rich

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
Oscar Wilde

Intelligence, Unexpected, Expect

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
Oscar Wilde

War, Long, Popular

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

Art, Known, Intense

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
Oscar Wilde

Democracy, Means, Simply

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

Wife, Same, Monogamy

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
Oscar Wilde

Life, Good, Fair

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
Oscar Wilde

Life, Long, Wait

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
Oscar Wilde

Success, Science, Result

Who, being loved, is poor?
Oscar Wilde

Love, Poor, Loved

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

Romantic, Others, Deceiving

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
Oscar Wilde

Mistakes, Die, Sense

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde

Good, Advice, Pass

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
Oscar Wilde

Friendship, Best, Laughter

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

Life, Important, Talk

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
Oscar Wilde

Wish, Answer, Gods

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

Nothing, Everything, Value

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
Oscar Wilde

Good, Bad, Stupidity

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
Oscar Wilde

God, Sometimes, Ability

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
Oscar Wilde

Poetry, Bad, Feeling

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
Oscar Wilde

Between, Read, Difference

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
Oscar Wilde

Poetry, Everything, Survive

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Dramatist

Born: October 16, 1854

Died: November 30, 1900

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