Oscar Wilde Quotes

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Oscar Wilde

Profession : Poet

Birth : October 16, 1854

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Oscar Wilde

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

Oscar Wilde

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Oscar Wilde

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Oscar Wilde

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Oscar Wilde

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

Oscar Wilde

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

Oscar Wilde

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

Oscar Wilde

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

Oscar Wilde

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.

Oscar Wilde

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

Oscar Wilde

True friends stab you in the front.

Oscar Wilde

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

Oscar Wilde

An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

Oscar Wilde

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

Oscar Wilde

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

Oscar Wilde

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.

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Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Oscar Wilde

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

Oscar Wilde

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

Oscar Wilde