Oscar Wilde Quotes
1854–1900
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish dramatist, essayist, novelist and poet.
Also known as: Oscar Wild, Wilde, Wilde, Oscar, The Nightingale and the Rose
353 quotes
Ah, don't say that you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.
He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.
The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes.
Moderation is a fatal thing, Lady Hunstanton. Nothing succeeds like excess.
I couldn't help it. I can resist everything except temptation.
Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.
The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.
Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
In the past I was a poet and a tyrant. Now I am an artist and an anarchist.
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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Oscar Wilde (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.