40 Oscar Wild Quotes

* Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

* Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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

* To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. 

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

* If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. 

* It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it. 

* The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

* Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

* You can never be overdressed or overeducated. 

* Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

* Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

* A good friend will always stab you in the front.

* I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.

* Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.

* Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

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

* Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

* I am not young enough to know everything.

* The heart was made to be broken.

* You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.

* A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

* Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

* Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.

* Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. 

* The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

* I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

* Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace. 

* Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

* With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?

* Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

* A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing. 

* I can resist anything except temptation. 

* If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you. 

* I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

* All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.