QuotesOscar Wilde quotes
Oscar Wilde (1854 to 1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist and wit. A great many clever lines are wrongly credited to him. The ones below can all be found in his plays and his one novel, and each names its source.
Quotations
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.
Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)I can resist everything except temptation.
Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance (1893)
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- "Be yourself; everyone else is already taken" is often credited to Wilde, but nobody has found it in his works. It is not included here.