20+ Oscar Wilde Quotes About Life To Take Inspiration From

Top 20+ Oscar Wilde Quotes About Life

We’ve compiled a list of Oscar Wilde quotes on life, love, and inspiration here. Scroll down for the list.

Oscar Wilde Quotes On Life

Here is a list of quotes on life by Oscar Wilde:

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

— Lady Windermere's Fan

• "Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes."

— The Picture of Dorian Gray

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

— Lady Windermere's Fan

• "Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons."

— De Profundis

• "Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue."

— The Soul of Man Under Socialism

• "Cynicism is simply the art of seeing things as they are, instead of as they ought to be."

— Lady Windermere's Fan

• "Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground."

— De Profundis

• "The truth is rarely pure and never simple."

— The Importance of Being Earnest

• "After a good dinner, one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations."

— A Woman of No Importance

• "To define is to limit."

— The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde Quotes On Love

Here is a list of quotes on love by Oscar Wilde:

• "To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."

— An Ideal Husband

• "Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood."

— An Ideal Husband

• "You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit."

— The Picture of Dorian Gray

• "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his."

— The Importance of Being Earnest

• "Hatred is blind. Love is also blind."

— De Profundis

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

— The Picture of Dorian Gray

• "I can resist everything except temptation."

— The Importance of Being Earnest

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Oscar Wilde Quotes

Here is a list of Oscar Wilde quotes to post as Instagram captions:

• "Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing."

— The Picture of Dorian Gray

• "The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself."

— A Woman of No Importance

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

— Attributed

• "To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness."

— The Importance of Being Earnest

• "Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

— Attributed

• "The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius."

— The Critic as Artist

• "Charity creates a multitude of sins."

— The Soul of Man Under Socialism

• "Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike."

— An Ideal Husband

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

— Intentions

• "It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection."

— The Critic as Artist

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These quotes by Oscar Wilde will change your view of the world and put you in deep thought.

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