Oscar Wilde
The old believe everything: the middle-aged suspect everything: the young know everything.
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Oscar Wilde
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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Oscar Wilde
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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Oscar Wilde
Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
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Oscar Wilde
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Oscar Wilde
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
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
You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
Oscar Wilde
I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.
Oscar Wilde
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
Oscar Wilde
A good friend will always stab you in the front.
Oscar Wilde
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar Wilde
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
Oscar Wilde
Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde
I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
Oscar Wilde
Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
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
Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.
Oscar Wilde
I can resist anything except temptation.
Oscar Wilde
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.
Oscar Wilde
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Oscar Wilde
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Oscar Wilde
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
Oscar Wilde
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.
Oscar Wilde
We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
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
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
Oscar Wilde
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
Oscar Wilde
My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people’s.
Oscar Wilde
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde
The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
Oscar Wilde
The Americans are certainly hero-worshippers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.
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
If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you
Oscar Wilde
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
Oscar Wilde
A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
Oscar Wilde
No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
Oscar Wilde
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
Oscar Wilde
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
Oscar Wilde
It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is fatal.
Oscar Wilde
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
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
An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.
Oscar Wilde
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
Oscar Wilde
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
Oscar Wilde
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
Oscar Wilde
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.