Oscar Wilde Quotes
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
I can resist everything except temptation.
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
I am not young enough to know everything.
There is no sin except stupidity.
Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
I can’t stand people who do not take food seriously.
True friends stab you in the front.
I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
I can believe anything, provided that it is incredible.
Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas.
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has ever known.
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
I don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.
I am always late on principle because I despise formal deadlines.
I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do the day after.
I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world, there are only individuals.
A poet can survive anything but a misprint.
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
Indifference is a sort of parasitism, living on the crumbs of others.
The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he never was a lake poet.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.
I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.
Men always want to be a woman’s first love, and women like to be a man’s last romance.
Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others.
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But it is better to be good than to be ugly.
It’s not the tragedies that kill us; it’s the messes.
What is abnormal in life stands out just as much as what is normal.
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.