Oscar Wilde

Quote link. Other quotes about: little sin: "A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal."
Quote link. Other quotes about: art life: "All that I desire to point out is the general principle that Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing: "Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much."
Quote link. Other quotes about: happy man love woman: "A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man: "A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies."
Quote link. Other quotes about: discover: "America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up."
Quote link. Other quotes about: country: "America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friend nature success: "Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success."
Quote link.: "Arguments are to be avoided they are always vulgar and often convincing."
Quote link. Other quotes about: death: "Biography lends to death a new terror."
Quote link.: "But what is the difference between literature and journalism ...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all."
Quote link. Other quotes about: ignorance: "By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community."
Quote link. Other quotes about: old grow: "Children begin by loving their parents as they grow older they judge them sometimes they forgive them."
Quote link.: "Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing: "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing."
Quote link.: "Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes."
Quote link.: "Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."
Quote link.: "I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex."
Quote link. Other quotes about: old friend nothing friends: "I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones."
Quote link. Other quotes about: young: "I am not young enough to know everything."
Quote link. Other quotes about: believe: "I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible."
Quote link.: "I can resist anything but temptation."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friend man good friends look: "I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world person: "I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world."
Quote link. Other quotes about: first: "Illusion is the first of all pleasures."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life love: "I love acting. It is so much more real than life."
Quote link. Other quotes about: die: "I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god think man: "I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability."
Quote link. Other quotes about: bad people good: "It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious."
Quote link. Other quotes about: little: "It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information."
Quote link.: "It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating."
Quote link. Other quotes about: art: "It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art."
Quote link. Other quotes about: work: "I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again."
Quote link. Other quotes about: talk important: "Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about."
Quote link. Other quotes about: first man women love woman: "Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance."
Quote link. Other quotes about: art: "Morality, like art, means a drawing a line someplace."
Quote link. Other quotes about: day live perfect: "Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live people: "Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
Quote link.: "Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing soul: "Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul."
Quote link. Other quotes about: die never people discover: "Nowadays 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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing people: "One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing."
Quote link. Other quotes about: death live good: "One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation."
Quote link. Other quotes about: reason man: "One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason."
Quote link. Other quotes about: prison man: "One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never life: "One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar."
Quote link.: "One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life: "One's real life is often the life that one does not lead."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people: "Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast."
Quote link.: "Only the shallow know themselves."
Quote link. Other quotes about: america never discover: "Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected."
Quote link.: "Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live living wish: "Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."
Quote link.: "Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow."
Quote link. Other quotes about: happiness: "Some cause happiness wherever they go others whenever they go."
Quote link. Other quotes about: science: "The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life nature perfect: "The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for."
Quote link.: "The basis of optimism is sheer terror."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing value: "The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never good: "The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself."
Quote link.: "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: grow soul: "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself."
Quote link.: "The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands."
Quote link.: "The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius."
Quote link. Other quotes about: truth never: "The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man: "There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up."
Quote link. Other quotes about: right: "There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books bad book: "There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world: "The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible."
Quote link. Other quotes about: women society: "Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years."
Quote link. Other quotes about: first: "To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world respect: "To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable."
Quote link. Other quotes about: look: "To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune to lose both looks like carelessness."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friend friends: "True friends stab you in the front."
Quote link. Other quotes about: look: "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
Quote link. Other quotes about: america: "We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language."
Quote link. Other quotes about: luck first men man women woman husband wife: "When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck men risk theirs."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man: "Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wrong people: "Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god answer wish: "When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers."
Quote link. Other quotes about: born: "Why was I born with such contemporaries"
Quote link. Other quotes about: man: "Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat."
Quote link. Other quotes about: love: "Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects."
Quote link. Other quotes about: class: "Work is the curse of the drinking classes."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man love look: "Yet each man kills the thing he loves,By each let this be heard,Some do it with a bitter look,Some with a flattering word,The koward does it with a kiss,The brave man with a sword"

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