Oscar Wilde quotes
The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out. 
Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future. 
Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes. 
Never marry at all... Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed. 
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction. 
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. 
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. Oscar Wilde Short quotes ⇑
Short Quotes
Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic. 
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. 
One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends. 
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. 
Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them. 
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. 
To define is to limit. 
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. 
She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness. 
Irony is wasted on the stupid 
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. 
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. 
Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit. 
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. 
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. 
Oscar Wilde Humor quotes ⇑
Humor Quotes
One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards. 
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable. 
Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do. 
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. 
Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. Women have a more subtle instinct about these things. What women like is to be a man's last romance. 
I am tired of myself tonight. I should like to be somebody else. 
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world. 
In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody. 
I have no objection to anyone's sex life as long as they don't practice it in the street and frighten the horses. 
Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others. 
People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately. 
Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious. 
To lose one parent... may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness. Oscar Wilde Funny quotes ⇑
Funny Quotes
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. 
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. 
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up. 
You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want? 
It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible Oscar Wilde Witty quotes ⇑
Witty Quotes
I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself. 
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself. 
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it. 
Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. 
Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. Oscar Wilde Love quotes ⇑
Love Quotes
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. 
You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear. 
Oscar Wilde Beauty quotes ⇑
Beauty Quotes
It's beauty that captures your attention. personality which captures your heart. 
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her daughter, she is perfectly satisfied 
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. All Oscar Wilde quotes ⇑
In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.
You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.
Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.
One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.
Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.
The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
nothing that is worth knowing can be taught
It is perfectly monstrous... the way people go about nowadays, saying things against one behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.
I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword
Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.
The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.
To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.
There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.
It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world
