Oscar Wilde Quotes

"Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much."
-Oscar Wilde in Enemies quotes.

"Life is too important to be taken seriously."
-Oscar Wilde

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
-Oscar Wilde in Quotations quotes.

"Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul."
-Oscar Wilde in Senses quotes.

"Eduaction is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."
-Oscar Wilde in Time quotes.

"Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about."
-Oscar Wilde in Life quotes.

"I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex."
-Oscar Wilde in Simplicity quotes.

"When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others."
-Oscar Wilde

"I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices."
-Oscar Wilde

"Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious."
-Oscar Wilde in Virtue quotes.

"Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another."
-Oscar Wilde

"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."
-Oscar Wilde in Luxury quotes.

"One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art."
-Oscar Wilde

"The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling I have always cultivated."
-Oscar Wilde in Inferiority quotes.

"She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness."
-Oscar Wilde in Charm quotes.

"To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability."
-Oscar Wilde in Passion quotes.

"Crying is the refuge of plain women, but the ruin of pretty ones."
-Oscar Wilde in Suffering quotes.

"Imagination is a quality given to man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humaor is provided to console him from what he is."
-Oscar Wilde

"My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's."
-Oscar Wilde in Business quotes.

"There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up."
-Oscar Wilde

"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you."
-Oscar Wilde

"The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius."
-Oscar Wilde in Genius quotes.

"Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast."
-Oscar Wilde in People quotes.

"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. "
-Oscar Wilde

"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to death. One or the other has to go."
-Oscar Wilde in Fighting quotes.

"It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes."
-Oscar Wilde in Hope quotes.

"A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life."
-Oscar Wilde