Oscar Wilde Quotes

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live... view

By: Oscar Wilde

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray... view

By: Oscar Wilde

Society exists only as a mental concept.. view

By: Oscar Wilde

Some cause happiness wherever they go.. view

By: Oscar Wilde

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties... view

By: Oscar Wilde

Success is a science.. view

By: Oscar Wilde

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything... view

By: Oscar Wilde

The basis of optimism is sheer terror... view

By: Oscar Wilde

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame... view

By: Oscar Wilde

The critic has to educate the public.. view

By: Oscar Wilde

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means... view

By: Oscar Wilde

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world... view

By: Oscar Wilde

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you... view

By: Oscar Wilde

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement... view

By: Oscar Wilde

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation... view

By: Oscar Wilde

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read... view

By: Oscar Wilde

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead... view

By: Oscar Wilde

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly... view

By: Oscar Wilde

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating... view

By: Oscar Wilde

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul... view

By: Oscar Wilde

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness... view

By: Oscar Wilde

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm... view

By: Oscar Wilde

There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies... view

By: 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... view

By: Oscar Wilde

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself... view

By: Oscar Wilde

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry... view

By: Oscar Wilde

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged... view

By: Oscar Wilde

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities... view

By: Oscar Wilde

Only the shallow know themselves... view

By: Oscar Wilde

Ordinary riches can be stolen.. view

By: Oscar Wilde

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us.. view

By: Oscar Wilde

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious... view

By: Oscar Wilde

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected... view

By: Oscar Wilde

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both... view

By: Oscar Wilde

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are... view

By: Oscar Wilde

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit... view

By: Oscar Wilde

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards... view

By: Oscar Wilde

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars... view

By: Oscar Wilde

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it... view

By: Oscar Wilde

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better... view

By: Oscar Wilde

There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about... view

By: Oscar Wilde

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last... view

By: Oscar Wilde