Quotes By Oscar Wilde

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

True friends stab you in the front.

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.

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

Who, being loved, is poor?

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

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

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.

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

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