Oscar Wilde Quotes
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One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.
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My dear fellow, the truth isn't quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl.
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Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
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I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.
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One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders. Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it.
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She knew nothing but she had everything he had lost.
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A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten.
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To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.
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People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
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The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it.
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For a sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.
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Some people always know the price, but not the value.
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Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.
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Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.
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The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.
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There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.
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But I am afraid that we are beginning to be over-educated; at least everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
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God and other artists are always a little obscure....
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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.