Quotes By Oscar Wilde

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

True friends stab you in the front.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

Who, being loved, is poor?

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.