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
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