852 – “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”

–Oscar Wilde

607 – Oscar Wilde Price and Value Quote

–A Conversation between Lord Darlington and Cecil Graham in Oscar Wilde’s Play Lady Windermere’s Fan

Cecil Graham: “What is a cynic?”

Lord Darlington: “A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.”

Cecil Graham: “And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn’t know the market price of any single thing.”

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422 – “Never love anybody who treats you like you’re ordinary”

–Oscar Wilde [Attributed]

408 – “The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.”

–Lord Illingworth in Oscar Wilde’s play “Woman of No Importance“

242 – “Who, being loved, is poor?”

–Hester Worsley in Oscar Wilde’s A Woman of No Importance

31 – “It takes a great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.”

– Oscar Wilde [Dubious Attribution, see source note]

28 – “Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.”

– Mr. Dumby in Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan: A Play about a Good Woman

1 – “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most People just exist, that is all.”

– Oscar Wilde