Oscar Wilde Quotes
Irish playwright and poet, author of The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Importance of Being Earnest. Oscar Wilde remains the wittiest voice in English letters — every line a polished gem. Below are 29 of the most loved Oscar Wilde quotes, chosen from across their works and letters. Tap Copy on any quote to save or share it.
Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Every Saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
Who, being loved, is poor?
Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
I can resist everything except temptation.
When it rains, look for rainbows; when it's dark, look for stars.
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.
I am not young enough to know everything.
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
The heart was made to be broken.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
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.