Oscar Wilde Quotes

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the starts.

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.

True friends stab you in the front.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Ultimately, the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or friendship, is conversation.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

Art provides the language we need to appreciate life.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.

Life is too important to be taken seriously.

The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

The heart was made to be broken.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

The greatest of all sins is stupidity.

None of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are, if he did he would cease to be an artist.

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

Lots of people act well, but few people talk well.

This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Punctuality is the thief of time

The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.

A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

To love oneself is the beginning of a life long romance.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

A pessimist is one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.

He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.

I am dying beyond my means.

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.