Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 5

"Oscar Wilde: 'I wish I had said that.' Whistler: 'You will, Oscar; you will."
-Oscar Wilde

"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."
-Oscar Wilde in Optimism quotes.

"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies."
-Oscar Wilde in Choice quotes.

"But what is the difference between literature and journalism? ...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all."
-Oscar Wilde in Journalism quotes.

"There is no sin except stupidity."
-Oscar Wilde

"The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk."
-Oscar Wilde in Exercise quotes.

"What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities."
-Oscar Wilde in Insincerity quotes.

"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious."
-Oscar Wilde in People quotes.

"The only excuse for creating something useless is that one admires it intensely."
-Oscar Wilde

"One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing."
-Oscar Wilde

"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative."
-Oscar Wilde

"Democracy is the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people."
-Oscar Wilde

"Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow."
-Oscar Wilde

"Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality."
-Oscar Wilde in Gossip quotes.

"He hadn't a single redeeming vice."
-Oscar Wilde

"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."
-Oscar Wilde

"I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability."
-Oscar Wilde in Mankind quotes.

"When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring."
-Oscar Wilde in Country quotes.

"The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life."
-Oscar Wilde in Art quotes.

"It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information."
-Oscar Wilde

"Oh! don't use big words. They mean so little."
-Oscar Wilde

"Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success."
-Oscar Wilde in Marriage quotes.

"Do not speak ill of society, Algie. Only people who can't get in do that."
-Oscar Wilde

"Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people."
-Oscar Wilde in People quotes.

"Humanity takes itself too seriously. It's the world's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, history would have been different."
-Oscar Wilde in History quotes.

"...my dear boy, no woman is a genius. They are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals."
-Oscar Wilde in Mind quotes.

"The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death."
-Oscar Wilde in Love quotes.