Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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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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Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London.
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A kiss may ruin a human life.
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Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
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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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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 only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.
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Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
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How does one cure the soul? Through the senses.
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Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.
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The final revelation is that Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.
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Sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it.
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Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman - or the want of it in the man.
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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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The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
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In the wild struggle for existance, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.
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Do not forget that small daily actions do or undo character.
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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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If people were meant to be nude, they would have been born this way.
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Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.
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Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!