Oscar Wilde Quotes

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Oscar Wilde

Profession : Poet

Birth : October 16, 1854

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

Oscar Wilde

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

Oscar Wilde

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

Oscar Wilde

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Oscar Wilde

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Oscar Wilde

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

Oscar Wilde

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

Oscar Wilde

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

Oscar Wilde

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

Oscar Wilde

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Oscar Wilde

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

Oscar Wilde

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

Oscar Wilde

Who, being loved, is poor?

Oscar Wilde

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

Oscar Wilde

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

Oscar Wilde

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

Oscar Wilde

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

Oscar Wilde

There is no sin except stupidity.

Oscar Wilde

Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world.

Oscar Wilde