Inspirational Quotes by Oscar Wilde

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

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The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.
- Oscar Wilde

Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde.

Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot.
In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
- Oscar Wilde

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
- Oscar Wilde

There are only two tragedies in life:
one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
- Oscar Wilde

Who, being loved, is poor?
- Oscar Wilde

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

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
- Oscar Wilde

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

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

Everything popular is wrong.
- Oscar Wilde

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

Hatred is blind, as well as love.
- Oscar Wilde

I am not young enough to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
- Oscar Wilde

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
- Oscar Wilde

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
- Oscar Wilde

Familiarity breeds consent.
- Oscar Wilde

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

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

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
- Oscar Wilde

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.
- Oscar Wilde

The heart was made to be broken.
- Oscar Wilde

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde

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