Oscar Wilde was an Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet and lived from October 16, 1854 until November 30, 1900. His most popular pieces, or ones that you may recognize, are probably "The Picture of Dorian Gray" and "The Importance of Being Earnest".
He was witty and incredibly intelligent, insanely successful early in his life, inspirational, though provoking, timeless. Before I completely bore you with information you more than likely don't care to know, I highly recommend reading more on Wilde's life here or here.
Wilde has a unique way of portraying emotion and sarcasm in his writings. Even from reading through his novel, you can just feel his wit and personality flying off of the pages. Because of this, I wanted to share some of my favorite Oscar Wilde quotes with anyone willing to read this.
1. Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
2. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
3. Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.
4. The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
5. Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
6. Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
7. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
8. To define is to limit.
9. Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.
10. It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love.
11. You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.
12. To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
13. Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
The quotes I chose may not be the most popular and they may not make sense to you, and that's okay. The quotes I chose are meaningful and eye-opening. These quotes should serve as reminders to love yourself fiercely and to live your life the way you want to. They should remind you that just because you think someone has it better than you or they have "nicer" things than you, it doesn't mean their life is only sunshine and rainbows.
Be you. Live your life. Don't worry about other people. Keep on keeping on.
