Oscar Wilde Quotes
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The first duty of life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one as yet discovered.
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It is very vulgar to talk about one's own business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then only at dinner parties.
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And if it feels good... Feel it!
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I have never given adoration to anyone except myself.
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Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.
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We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it.
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Alas! it is a fearful thing To feel another's guilt!
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One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.
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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
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Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.
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For, try as we may, we cannot get behind the appearence of things to reality. And the terrible reason may be that there is no reality in the things apart from their appearences.
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You can fake intelligence, but you can't fake wit.
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The aim of love is to love. No more, no less.
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The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
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Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.
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Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
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An opinion is not necesarily correct just because you're willing to die for it.
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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
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Sooner or later we have all to pay for what we do.
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Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich.
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Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people.
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It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously.
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Any place you love is the world to you.
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The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.