50 Oscar Wilde phrases to admire the writer’s sarcastic humor

Be yourself. All other personalities already have an owner.

If we are so inclined to judge others, it is because we fear for ourselves.

We should sympathize with joy. The less we talk about the wounds of life, the better.

Living is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist.

One becomes more trivial when one takes oneself seriously.

When people agree with me, I always feel that I must be wrong.

There are things that are precious precisely because they last a short time.

We teach children to remember, but we do not teach them to grow.

Life is not complicated, we are. Life is simple and simple is always right.

Loving yourself is the beginning of a romance that will last a lifetime.

Give the man a mask and he will tell the truth.

No man is rich enough to buy his past.

To define is to limit.

We are all lying in the gutter, only some are looking at the stars.

Truth is rarely pure and never simple.

There are only two rules for writing: having something to say and saying it.

The man who deals with the past does not deserve to have a future.

Anyone can do one thing. The merit is in making the world believe that you made it.

Sorry, I didn’t recognize you: I’ve changed a lot.

Being natural is the most difficult of poses.

As he was not great, he had no enemies.

I’m not young enough to know everything.

Ordinary riches can be stolen, but real ones never. In your soul are infinitely precious things that no one can ever take away from you.

Anyone can empathize with a friend’s suffering. It is sympathizing with his success that requires a delicate nature.

It’s very difficult not to be unfair to the ones we love.

A dreamer is one who only finds his way in the moonlight and who, as a punishment, sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

The most terrible thing is not having our hearts broken (for hearts were made to be broken), but turning our hearts to stone.

Create yourself. Be your own poem.

The past could always be annulled. Regret, denial or forgetfulness could do it. But the future was inevitable.

If you’re going to tell others the truth, make them laugh.

Life is just a horrible little time full of delicious moments.

When I was young, I thought money was the most important thing in the world. Today, I’m sure.

Sometimes we can go years without really living and suddenly our whole life is concentrated in a single moment.

With freedom, flowers, books and the moon, who wouldn’t be completely happy?

I am convinced that God made a different world for each man and that it is in this world, which is within ourselves, that we must try to live.

The world is a stage, but its cast is a horror.

Dissatisfaction is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

When a person is in love, he starts by deceiving himself and ends up deceiving others. This is what the world calls romance.

We can only give an impartial opinion on things that do not interest us, no doubt, for this very reason, impartial opinions are worthless.

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about. It’s not talking.

Nothing is as dangerous as being too modern. One has a tendency to suddenly become old-fashioned.

I like to listen to myself. It’s one of my greatest pleasures. I talk to myself often and I’m so smart that sometimes I don’t understand a word I say.

Each of us has a heaven and a hell within us.

If nature had been comfortable, man would never have invented architecture.

The work was a success, but the public failed resoundingly.

In love, all paths end in the same way: disillusionment.

She behaves as if she were beautiful. That’s the secret of her charm.

Discovering exactly what did not and will not happen is a priceless privilege of every educated and gifted man.

The most pleasant feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously and have it discovered.

Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to be artistic.