Quotes By Oscar Wilde

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

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

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.