Quotes By Oscar Wilde

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

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

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.