Oscar Wilde Quotes
Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.Oscar Wilde
The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.Oscar Wilde
One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.Oscar Wilde
Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.Oscar Wilde
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.Oscar Wilde
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.Oscar Wilde
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.Oscar Wilde
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.Oscar Wilde
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - - The unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.Oscar Wilde
Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.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
Biography lends to death a new terror.Oscar Wilde
Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.Oscar Wilde
Action is the last refuge of those who cannot dream.Oscar Wilde
One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell without laughing.Oscar Wilde
The basis for optimism is sheer terror.Oscar Wilde
The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk.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
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.Oscar Wilde
Only the shallow know themselves.Oscar Wilde
Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist.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
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.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
To disagree with three - Fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.Oscar Wilde
To love oneself is the beginning of a life - Long romance.Oscar Wilde
The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling I have always cultivated.Oscar Wilde
Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.Oscar Wilde
Conscience and cowardice are really the same thing. Conscience is the trade - Name of the firm.Oscar Wilde
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live.Oscar Wilde
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.Oscar Wilde
Some cause happiness wherever they go others whenever they go.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
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.Oscar Wilde
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well worth remembering from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.Oscar Wilde
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.Oscar Wilde
