There are many, many famous quotes by Oscar Wilde. Here are some of them and some lesser known ones.
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.—A Picture of Dorian Gray
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.—A Picture of Dorian Gray
He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.—A Picture of Dorian Gray
I can resist everything except temptation.—A Picture of Dorian Gray
Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.—Aphorisms
Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.—De Profundis
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.—Sebastian Melmoth
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.—Lady Windermere's Fan
Ah, well, then, I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.—when told of the amount for an operation he had to have
The two great turning points in my life were when my father sent me to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison.—De Profundis
One has the impression that he never put out more than half of his strength in his books.—Vincent O'Sullivan
Oscar Wilde did not dive very deeply below the surface of human nature, but found, to a certain extent rightly, that there is more on the surface of life than is seen by the eyes of most people.—J. T. Grein
He was never quite sure himself where and when he was serious.—Robert Ross
I think his fate is rather like Humpty Dumpty's, quite as tragic and quite as impossible to put right.—Constance Wilde, Wilde's wife
From the beginning Wilde performed his life and continued to do so even after fate had taken the plot out of his hands.—W. H. Auden
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