Quotes By Oscar Wilde

Who, being loved, is poor?

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

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

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

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

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

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.