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.

"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

"To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up."
-Oscar Wilde

"Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered."
-Oscar Wilde

"He has never written a single book, so you can imagine how much he knows."
-Oscar Wilde

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

"A woman begins by resisting a man's advances, and ends by blocking his retreat."
-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.

"All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling."
-Oscar Wilde in Poetry quotes.

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

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

"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.

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

"I don't play accurately-any one can play accurately- but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life."
-Oscar Wilde in Play quotes.

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

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

"The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for."
-Oscar Wilde in Dreams quotes.

"Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess."
-Oscar Wilde

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

"Philanthropy is the refuge of rich people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures."
-Oscar Wilde in People quotes.