Oscar Wilde Quotes

Biography: Oscar Wilde is renowned for his sharp wit, flamboyant style, and celeb... more Biography: Oscar Wilde is renowned for his sharp wit, flamboyant style, and celebrated works, including "The Picture of Dorian Gray" and "The Importance of Being Earnest." Born in Dublin in 1854, Wilde became a leading figure in London's late-Victorian society. His incisive social commentary and unique aesthetic sense left a lasting impact on literature and the arts. less

"To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.""We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.""Experience is the hardest kind of teacher.""Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.""The truth is never pure and rarely simple.""I choose my friends for their good looks, my""Genius is born—not paid.""Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.""We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.""I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.""In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.""Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.""Some things are more precious because they don't last long.""To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.""The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious""A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it""The very essence of romance is uncertainty""We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities""If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again there is no use in reading it at all""What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise"

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