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Oscar Wilde — Portrait after a picture by Napoleon Sarony / Adam Cuerden (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

The quotations of

Oscar Wilde

Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete

1854–1900

173 quotes, most often on Marriage, Love and Comedy. Part of the Writers and Poets collections.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
- Character
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
“The Relation of Dress to Art”, The Pall Mall Gazette (February 28, 1885)
- Character
The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.
The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
- Character
All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.
“The Portrait of Mr. W. H.”, Blackwood’s Magazine (July 1889)
- Character
The things people say of a man do not alter a man. He is what he is. Public opinion is of no value whatsoever.
The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
- Character
The true perfection of man lies, not in what man has, but in what man is.
The Soul of Man under Socialism (1891)
- Character
Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), Chapter IIn context
- Character
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), Chapter IIn context
- Character
To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other’s character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), Third Act, spoken by Lady BracknellIn context
- Character
- Marriage

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