Oscar Wilde quotes

“There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.”

— Oscar Wilde

“To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.”

— Oscar Wilde

“We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.”

— Oscar Wilde

“We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.”

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

“Wisdom comes with winters.”

— Oscar Wilde

“The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.”

— Oscar Wilde

“When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Work is the curse of the drinking classes.”

— Oscar Wilde

“My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.”

— Oscar Wilde

“I can resist anything but temptation.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.”

— Oscar Wilde

“What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Only the shallow know themselves.”

— Oscar Wilde

“We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.”

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”

— Oscar Wilde

“It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.”

— Oscar Wilde

“A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.”

— Oscar Wilde

“I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.”

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

“I love acting. It is so much more real than life.”

— Oscar Wilde

“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.”

— Oscar Wilde

“To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.”

— Oscar Wilde

“I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.”

— Oscar Wilde