Quotes of Oscar Wilde

Quotes About Love

"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."

"You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear."

"Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary."

"The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death."
Oscar Wilde

Wall Street Journal

Quotes About People

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."

"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious."

"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his."
Oscar Wilde

Huffington Post

Quotes About Life

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you."

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

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


Los Buffos

Quotes About Happiness

"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

"With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?"

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

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