[ oscar wilde Quotes ]
Showing search results for Oscar Wilde Quotes - 224 quotations by Oscar Wilde - Dictionary Quotes
224 quotes (Page 7 of 9 pages)Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
Attitude
Oscar Wilde
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 590 votes
She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.
Weakness
Oscar Wilde
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 552 votes
Skepticism is the beginning of Faith.
Skepticism
Oscar Wilde
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 550 votes
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
Society
Oscar Wilde
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 599 votes
Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
Dreams
Oscar Wilde
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 562 votes
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Happiness
Oscar Wilde
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 573 votes
Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.
Speakers and Speaking
Oscar Wilde
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 393 votes
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
Emotions
Oscar Wilde
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 568 votes
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Attitude
Oscar Wilde
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 560 votes
The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
Children
Oscar Wilde
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 359 votes
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
Books - Reading
Oscar Wilde
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 455 votes
The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet's dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.
Humankind
Oscar Wilde
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 523 votes
The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
Perfection
Oscar Wilde
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 501 votes
The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
Critics and Criticism
Oscar Wilde
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 378 votes
The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.
Colleges and Universities
Oscar Wilde
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 556 votes
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.
Fiction
Oscar Wilde
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 525 votes
The greatest of all sins is stupidity.
Stupidity
Oscar Wilde
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 539 votes
The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.
Husbands
Oscar Wilde
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 562 votes
The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.
Life and Living
Oscar Wilde
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 432 votes
The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.
Belief
Oscar Wilde
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 524 votes
The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.
Respectability
Oscar Wilde
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 574 votes
The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.
Illusion
Oscar Wilde
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 564 votes
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
Advice
Oscar Wilde
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 440 votes
The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.
Plays
Oscar Wilde
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 526 votes
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Genius
Oscar Wilde
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 492 votes
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun