Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Irony is wasted on the stupid.
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Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations.
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It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
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Talent borrows, genius steals!
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If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them.
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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
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Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.
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The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.
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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
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Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.
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Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.
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In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.
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Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.
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What a silly thing love is! It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything and it is always telling one things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true.
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There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
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To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance.
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The fact is, that the public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesmanlike habits, supplies their demands.
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Charity creates a multitude of sins.
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Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
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The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.
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Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither.
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A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.