Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

By : Oscar Wilde

    View

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.

By : Oscar Wilde

    View

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

By : Oscar Wilde

    View

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

By : Oscar Wilde

    View

All art is quite useless.

By : Oscar Wilde

    View

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

By : Oscar Wilde

    View

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

By : Oscar Wilde

    View

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

By : Oscar Wilde

    View

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

By : Oscar Wilde

    View

In married life three is company and two none.

By : Oscar Wilde

    View

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

By : Oscar Wilde

    View

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

By : Oscar Wilde

    View