Oscar Wilde

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

—Oscar Wilde

I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

—Oscar Wilde

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

—Oscar Wilde

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

—Oscar Wilde

I have nothing to declare except my genius.

—Oscar Wilde

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

—Oscar Wilde

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

—Oscar Wilde

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

—Oscar Wilde

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

—Oscar Wilde

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

—Oscar Wilde

Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.

—Oscar Wilde

Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.

—Oscar Wilde

Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.

—Oscar Wilde

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

—Oscar Wilde

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

—Oscar Wilde

I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.

—Oscar Wilde

I can resist anything except temptation.

—Oscar Wilde

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

—Oscar Wilde

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.

—Oscar Wilde

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.

—Oscar Wilde

I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

—Oscar Wilde