Wilde Quotes

Wilde Quote of the day

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

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

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

I could see myself in a relationship with a girl - Olivia Wilde is so sexy she makes me want to strangle a mountain ox with my bare hands. She’s mesmerizing.

Hearts Live By Being Wounded

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.

I drink to separate my body from my soul.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

The Oscar Wilde of Welfare State gentility.

Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn.'

There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new.

You know what Oscar Wilde said, ma'am? He said, "nothing that is worth knowing can be taught". Nothing personal, ma'am... Carry on.

As happens with people who love a thing too much, it destroys them. Oscar Wilde said, 'You destroy the thing that you love.' It's the other way around. What you love destroys you.

She lives the poetry she cannot write.

Actually, I do like pink clothes, but it's not because I'm girly, it's because I'm the reincarnation of Oscar Wilde.

The ages live in history through their anachronisms.

As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses.

To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.

Reported as Oscar Wilde's last words on his death bed... This wallpaper is killing me. One of us has to go.

I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.

A refusal of nature as a model is a tradition that goes right back to Oscar Wilde.

A careless shoe string, in whose tie I see a wilde civility.

There is no such thing as a heterosexual male, only men who haven't met Oscar Wilde yet.

William Congreve is the only sophisticated playwright England has produced; and like Shaw, Sheridan, and Wilde, his nearest rivals, he was brought up in Ireland.

I love physical comedy. I love Oscar Wilde, I love Shakespeare comedies, I love improv.

The last couple of roles I missed out on went to Jennifer Hudson, Jessica Biel and Olivia Wilde.

Praise makes me humble, but when I am abused, I know that I have touched the stars.

It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world

My Salome is a mystic the sister of Salammbô a Saint Thérèse who worships the moon.

The key to making up Oscar Wilde quotes is to add '~ Oscar Wilde' at the end.

The Chinese general Sun Tzu said that all war was based on deception. Oscar Wilde said the same thing of romance.

Whether it's Dorothy Parker or Oscar Wilde, they're brilliant with genius bon mots. Of course, I find them extraordinary.

When asked what he thought of sports, Oscar Wilde replied, "I approve of any activity that requires the wearing of special clothing.

One can forgive Shakespeare anything, except one's own bad lines.

I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.

America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself.

She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.

I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.

this woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night

From beginning to end Wilde performed his life and continued to do so even after fame had taken the plot out of his own hands.

[Vincent Price] did Oscar Wilde on Broadway, and I think he probably did it because he was almost like an Oscar Wilde. He had that brilliant humor.

Oscar Wilde said that sunsets were not valued because we could not pay for sunsets. But Oscar Wilde was wrong; we can pay for sunsets. We can pay for them by not being Oscar Wilde.

I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort.

If you put on an Oscar Wilde [play], it will interest those who are interested in Oscar Wilde. But it won't interest anybody else, because they won't get that wit.

Oscar Wilde turned the world upside down and was able to laugh at it, and hopefully by the time I'm 120 and worn out, that's what I will achieve. I love being alive so much.

Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal - they can both sleep under the bridge. Right? Do they have a right? You're damn right they have a right!

What a lurid life Oscar Wilde does lead - so full of extraordinary incidents. What a chance for the memoir writers of the next century

If every witty thing that's said was true, Oscar Wilde, the world would worship You!