Inspirational Quotations by Oscar Wilde
- To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
- Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.
- The old believe everything;
the middle aged suspect everything:
the young know everything.
- No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
- To live is the rarest thing in the world.
Most people exist, that is all.
- Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
- The only thing to do with good advice is
pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.
- Who, being loved, is poor?
- All great ideas are dangerous.
- There are only two tragedies in life:
one is not getting what one wants,
and the other is getting it.
- A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
- Some cause happiness wherever they go;
others, whenever they go.
- The one charm of the past is that it is the past.
- Misfortunes one can endure - they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults - ah! there is the sting of life.
- I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked, and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
- In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
- Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and with his environment.
- The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
- When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving oneself; and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
- The only form of lying that is absolutely beyond reproach is lying for its own sake.
- True friends stab you in the front.
- Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
- A sentimentalist is a man who sees an absurd value in everything and doesn't know the market price of a single thing.
- Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
- Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
- Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
- I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops.
- The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.
- I always pass on good advice. It's the only thing to do with it. It is never any use to oneself.