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.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

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

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

True friends stab you in the front.

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.

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

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

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.

Life is too important to be taken seriously.

The heart was made to be broken.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

The greatest of all sins is stupidity.

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

Punctuality is the thief of time

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

Between men and women there is no friendship possible.

There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

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

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.

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

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

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

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'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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.