Oscar Wilde Quotations - Verses and Poems for Occasions

Oscar Wilde Quotations

This web page brings you a selection of sayings from the man of literature and art. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde said "Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months." So nothing has changed since his time. The wit Dorothy Parker wrote

If, with the literate, I am

Impelled to try an epigram

I never seek to take the credit

We all assume that Oscar said it

This website is primarily concerned with material for occasions :example birthday, anniversary...Valentines Day etc and so let's start with those examples of Oscar Wilde wisdom suitable for this purpose

Birthday

"A poet can survive everything but a misprint."

Oscar Wilde once did say

Today for you is special

Enjoy your (40th) bathday

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Said Oscar Wilde

"Those whom the gods love grow young."

Today, think of that, you old fart

When "Happy Birthday" is being sung

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"Who, being loved, is poor?"

Said Oscar Wilde, known for his panache

You are loved..therefore, well heeled

So this card contains no cash

Happy Birthday

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"The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything."

Said Oscar Wilde, the brilliant word weaver

I say this, on your (50th) birthday

Congratulations, you're now a believer

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"A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal."

Oscar Wilde said that

As you are now too old to cope with anything bordering on fatal here's just a little sincerity.

Have a reasonably happy birthday

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"A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction."

Said Oscar Wilde, who was gay

There's nothing wrong with some cosmetic help

So put on some slap and have a wonderful day

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Oscar Wilde Quotations re Mothers/Fathers Day

"Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them."

Said Oscar Wilde, believing it true

Happy (Mothers)(Fathers) Day is what I say

He didn't have a wonderful (Mom)(Dad) like you

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Wedding Anniversary / Valentines Day / Love

"Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same."

Said Oscar Wilde ..but he never said "I do"

I did, and very glad I did

While standing next to you

Happy Anniversary, Darling

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"Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance."

Said Oscar Wilde, with a hint of fun

After (25) years, with you by my side

He was right, you're my last, I'm done

I'm no poet, but my heart's in the right place

Happy Silver, darling. Roll on Gold

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"There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman.

It is a thing no married man knows anything about."

Said Oscar Wilde

Well, this man does, without doubt

Happy Anniversary, darling

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"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances

And ends by blocking his retreat."

How did Oscar Wilde know?

Did he live on our street

I'm glad you resisted

And glad you blocked

Happy Silver, darling. Roll on Gold

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"Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives

By reminding us that each day that passes by

Is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event."

Ignore Oscar Wilde, darling, he's telling a lie

Happy (16th) Wedding Anniversary

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"A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her."

Said Oscar Wilde, unmarried and gay

I'm happy and I love you

And will forever and a day

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"Anybody can be good in the country.

There are no temptations there."

Oscar Wilde didn't meet you

You tempt me everywhere

(Have a wonderful birthday)

(You're still my Valentine)

(Be my Valentine)

(etc)

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"One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards."

Oscar Wilde, wisely, did say

I agree, and will be dealt a winning hand

When I hold yours on our Wedding Day

or, for Anniversary

I agree, and was dealt a winning hand

When I held yours on our Wedding Day

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"Men marry because they are tired;

Women, because they are curious;

Both are disappointed."

An Oscar Wilde observation, quite spurious

Anyway, I'm glad we married for love

Happy Anniversary, darling

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"If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life."

Oscar Wilde said that, but to who?

I say " Oh do hurry along, dear

For I really do love you"

Happy Valentines Day

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"The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life."

Said Oscar Wilde, intellectual, gay and posh

Says I, hetrosexual and in love

"He was talking tosh"

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Divorce

"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live,

it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."

Said Oscar Wilde, a great literary force

I offer you this piece of philosophy

As congratulations on your recent divorce

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"Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence."

Says Oscar Wilde, who added

"Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience"

So stay single

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"The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception

absolutely necessary for both parties."

Said Oscar Wilde

Congrats on your Decree Nisi, and talking about parties......

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"How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralising as cigarettes,

and far more expensive."

Oscar Wilde

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"There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose."

Said Oscar Wilde, of course

Your ex had one

Congrats on your divorce

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"In married life three is company and two none."

Said Oscar Wilde, so true

Now you can have any company you like

You lucky singleton, you

Congrats on your divorce

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Oscar Wilde said "Some cause happiness

wherever they go; others, whenever they go."

You ex has gone

Good Show!

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"One should always be in love; that is the reason one should never marry."

Said Oscar Wilde, "it's not for me"

Congrats on completing your divorce

Now you're totally free

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"A man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing."

Said Oscar Wilde, "it's not for me"

Congrats on completing your divorce

Now you're totally free

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Here are more Oscar Wilde quotations

I never put off till tomorrow what I can do the day after.

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Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

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Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

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A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

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

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

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The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.

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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

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Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

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The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

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I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

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Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

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The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

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In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.

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That's yer lot of Oscar Wilde quotations

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