Oscar Wilde Quotes
Why was I born with such contemporaries?Oscar Wilde
Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.Oscar Wilde
Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist.Oscar Wilde
Only the shallow know themselves.Oscar Wilde
The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.Oscar Wilde
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.Oscar Wilde
There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.Oscar Wilde
Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative.Oscar Wilde
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - - The unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.Oscar Wilde
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.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 only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.Oscar Wilde
Conscience and cowardice are really the same thing. Conscience is the trade - Name of the firm.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
Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.Oscar Wilde
About foxhunting: The unspeakable chasing the uneatable.Oscar Wilde
Morality, like art, means a drawing a line someplace.Oscar Wilde
To disagree with three - Fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde: I wish I had said that. Whistler: You will, Oscar; you will.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
We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.Oscar Wilde
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.Oscar Wilde
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.Oscar Wilde
I am not young enough to know everything.Oscar Wilde
Art is the most intense form of individualism that the world has known.Oscar Wilde
Science is the record of dead religions.Oscar Wilde
Beauty is a form of genius - - Is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.Oscar Wilde
Divorces are made in heaven.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
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.Oscar Wilde
Nothing is so aggravating as calmness.Oscar Wilde
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.Oscar Wilde
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.Oscar Wilde
Chastity is the greatest form of perversion.Oscar Wilde
I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.Oscar Wilde
Arguments are to be avoided they are always vulgar and often convincing.Oscar Wilde
