3,435 Quotes by Oscar Wilde

Remember that the fool in the eyes of the gods and the fool in the eyes of man are very different.

With a proper background, women can do anything.

My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken; that is why God sends sorrow into the world.

I have never watched a man do anything useful who has not been graceful at some moment of his labour: it is only the loafer and the idle saunterer who is as useless and uninteresting to the artist as he is to himself.

The more one analyzes people, the more all reasons for analysis disappears. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.

The real fool, such as the gods mock or mar, is he who does not know himself.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist. That is all.

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune... to lose both seems like carelessness.

Ah! I prefer a gentlemanly fool any day. There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose.