Oscar Wilde Quotes
Science is the record of dead religions.Oscar Wilde
Experience... is simply the name we give our mistakes.Oscar Wilde
Dreamers can find their way by moonlight and their only punishment is that they see the dawn before the rest of the world.Oscar Wilde
The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common!Oscar Wilde
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.Oscar Wilde
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.Oscar Wilde
America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up.Oscar Wilde
Only the shallow know themselves.Oscar Wilde
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.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
A well - Tied tie is the first serious step in life.Oscar Wilde
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we personally dislike.Oscar Wilde
It is an odd thing, but everyone who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and possess all the attractions of the next world.Oscar Wilde
Some cause happiness wherever they go others whenever they go.Oscar Wilde
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.Oscar Wilde
Why was I born with such contemporaries?Oscar Wilde
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.Oscar Wilde
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.Oscar Wilde
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.Oscar Wilde
Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.Oscar Wilde
Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.Oscar Wilde
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.Oscar Wilde
Arguments are to be avoided they are always vulgar and often convincing.Oscar Wilde
Punctuality is the thief of time.Oscar Wilde
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.Oscar Wilde
To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle - Class respectability.Oscar Wilde
The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.Oscar Wilde
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.Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde: I wish I had said that. Whistler: You will, Oscar; you will.Oscar Wilde
Children begin by loving their parents as they grow older they judge them sometimes they forgive them.Oscar Wilde
Imagination is a quality given to man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humaor is provided to console him from what he is.Oscar Wilde
One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell without laughing.Oscar Wilde
As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.Oscar Wilde
My wallpaper and i are fighting a duel to death. One or the other has to go.Oscar Wilde
The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.Oscar Wilde
I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.Oscar Wilde
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.Oscar Wilde
