The Best Oskar Oskar Wilde Quotes

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching.

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.

When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies through the window.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are some one else’s opinions.

Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibers, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.

With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

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

A man cannot always be estimated by what he does. He may keep the law, and yet be worthless. He may break the law, and yet be fine. He may be bad, without ever doing anything bad.

If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened.

The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.

Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.