Oscar Wilde Inspirational Quotations

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

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

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.

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

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

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.

The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.

Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Everything in moderation, including moderation.

If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.

The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

One does not see anything until one sees its beauty.

The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.

I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one.

We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water can cleanse, that fire can purify, and that the Earth is mother to us all.

It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.

Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught.

Men always want to be a woman’s first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about these things. What (women) like is to be a man’s last romance.

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.

I may have said the same thing before... but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different.

You are Beautiful when you are happy

There is no sin except stupidity.

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

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

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.