Simply Oscar Wilde Quotes

SOME ARE MORE FAMOUS THAN OTHERS, BUT ALL ARE WORTH THE TIME. THERE ARE QUITE A LOT, BUT I COULDN'T CHOOSE ONLY A COUPLE; THEY ALL MAKE ME SO CONTENT WITH WIT.


A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.

A true friend stabs you in the front.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

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

All art is quite useless.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Everything popular is wrong.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

I can resist everything except temptation.

I have nothing to declare except my genuis.

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

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

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

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

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

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

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

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

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

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

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

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.


I WISH I COULD BE WITTY, BUT I'M CONTENT WITH RELYING ON THE WIT OF OTHERS. GO WILDE!