Oscar Wilde Quotes
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.Oscar Wilde
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.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
It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give really unbiased opinions, which is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always valueless.Oscar Wilde
We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.Oscar Wilde
Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex.Oscar Wilde
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.Oscar Wilde
My wallpaper and i are fighting a duel to death. One or the other has to go.Oscar Wilde
Morality, like art, means a drawing a line someplace.Oscar Wilde
The basis for optimism is sheer terror.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
Philanthropy is the refuge of rich people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.Oscar Wilde
To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune to lose both looks like carelessness.Oscar Wilde
Biography lends to death a new terror.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
Action: the last resource of those who know not how to dream.Oscar Wilde
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for 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
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.Oscar Wilde
I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.Oscar Wilde
All that I desire to point out is the general principle that Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.Oscar Wilde
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.Oscar Wilde
A well - Tied tie is the first serious step in life.Oscar Wilde
Conscience and cowardice are really the same thing. Conscience is the trade - Name of the firm.Oscar Wilde
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.Oscar Wilde
The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.Oscar Wilde
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.Oscar Wilde
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.Oscar Wilde
Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.Oscar Wilde
While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy; the second is perfection, which all should aim at.Oscar Wilde
A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.Oscar Wilde
Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.Oscar Wilde
Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist.Oscar Wilde
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship; and it is by far the best ending for one.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
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
To disagree with three - Fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.Oscar Wilde
