Oscar Wilde
A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth glancing at.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy.
No man does. That's his.
I have nothing to declare but my genius.
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
Always forgeive your enemies; nothing annoys them more.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
There are only two tragiedies in life: One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
Ah! don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
I can resist everything except temptation.
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Patirotism is a virtue of the vicious.
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
There is no such things as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.
think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.
I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
Men always want to be a woman’s first love - women like to be a mans last romance.
The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
I am not young enough to know everything.
Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative.
The basis for optimism is sheer terror.
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
When the gods choose to punish us, they merely answer our prayers.
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.
Bad artists always admire each others work.
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are.
Only the shallow know themselves
There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
The only way a woman can ever reform her husband is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.
Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.
Anyone can make history. Only a great man can write it.
The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.
Life is far too important to be taken seriously.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
I am in a duel to the death with this wallpaper, one of us has got to go. (One month before he died on the same bed.)
Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-Oscar Wilde's last words
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