Oscar Wilde Quotes
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People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies and to select our virtues with as much thought as we bestow upon the selection of our enemies.
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I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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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.
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Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.
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Sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it.
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If people were meant to be nude, they would have been born this way.
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Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.
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It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.
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I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
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A kiss may ruin a human life.
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There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
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Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
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Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.
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All great ideas are dangerous.
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The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
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Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
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Just because a man has died for it, does not make it true.
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Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
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I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.
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The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.