“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
— Oscar Wilde“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
— Oscar Wilde“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
— Oscar Wilde“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
— Oscar Wilde“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.”
— Oscar Wilde“A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.”
— Oscar Wilde“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”
— Oscar Wilde“Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.”
— Oscar Wilde“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.”
— Oscar Wilde“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.”
— Oscar Wilde“A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.”
— Oscar Wilde“Hearts are made to be broken.”
— Oscar Wilde“Yet each man kills the thing he lovesBy each let this be heardSome do it with a bitter lookSome with a flattering wordThe coward does it with a kissThe brave man with a sword”
— Oscar Wilde“When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.”
— Oscar Wilde“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.”
— Oscar Wilde“A kiss may ruin a human life”
— Oscar Wilde“I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.”
— Oscar Wilde“I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”
— Oscar Wilde“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
— Oscar Wilde“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
— 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“Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.”
— Oscar Wilde“You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.”
— Oscar Wilde“Even things that are true can be proved.”
— Oscar Wilde“We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.”
— Oscar Wilde“Nowadays 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.”
— Oscar Wilde“The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.”
— Oscar Wilde“With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.”
— Oscar Wilde“The curves of your lips rewrite history.”
— Oscar WildeWe are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
— Oscar WildeYou don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.
— Oscar WildeThe very essence of romance is uncertainty.
— Oscar WildeThe best way to make children good is to make them happy.
— Oscar WildeIndulgence is the lowest form of satisfaction.
— Oscar WildeOne should always be a little improbable.
— Oscar WildeEverything in moderation, including moderation.
— Oscar WildeThere is a fine line between pleasure and enslavement.
— Oscar WildeWe are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.
— Oscar WildeMan can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbable.
— Oscar WildeLife is too important to be taken seriously.
— Oscar WildeA fool is someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
— Oscar Wilde