Oscar Wilde

“There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“Hatred is blind, as well as love.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“There is no sin except stupidity.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“I don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one’s self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating – people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world’s original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“I can resist anything except temptation.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But it is better to be good than to be ugly.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“A good friend will always stab you in the front.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn’t. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“They’ve promised that dreams can come true – but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“One’s real life is so often the life that one does not lead.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.” ~ Oscar Wilde

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

“One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“No man is rich enough to buy back his past.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“You can never be overdressed or over-educated.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise, they’ll kill you.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.” ~ Oscar Wilde