Oscar Wilde Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. A flower blossoms for its own joy.

2. A kiss may ruin a human life

3. A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her. The Picture of Dorian Gray

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

5. Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or shed tears. But in real life it is different. Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. Our Guildensterns play Hamlet for us, and our Hamlets have to jest like Prince Hal. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast. Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories

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

7. but love is not fashionable anymore, the poets have killed it. They wrote so much about it that nobody believed them, and I am not surprised. True love suffers, and is silent. I remember myself once-but no matter now. Romance is a thing of the past. The Happy Prince and Other Tales

8. But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality. The Picture of Dorian Gray

9. Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

10. Die Welt ist von Narren geschaffen, damit Weise in ihr Leben. A Woman of No Importance

11. Even things that are true can be proved. The Picture of Dorian Gray

12. He is fairer than the morning star, and whiter than the moon. For his body I would give my soul, and for his love I would surrender heaven. The Fisherman & His Soul & Other Fairy Tales

13. Hearts are made to be broken. De Profundis

14. Hearts Live By Being Wounded

15. Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different. The Picture of Dorian Gray

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

17. I believe that if one man were to live out his life fully and completely, were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream - I believe that the world would gain such a fresh impulse of joy that we would forget all the maladies of medievalism, and return to the Hellenic ideal - to something finer, richer, than the Hellenic ideal, it may be. But the bravest man amongst us is afraid of himself. The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives. We are punished for our refusals.

18. I can be perfectly happy by myself. With freedom, flowers, books and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy? De Profundis

19. I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel. The Picture of Dorian Gray

20. I have nothing to declare except my genius.

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

22. I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

23. I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. The Importance of Being Earnest

24. I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact. The Importance of Being Earnest

25. I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact. The Importance of Being Earnest

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

27. If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

28. If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.

29. In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.

30. In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing. The Importance of Being Earnest