“We are all in the gutter,
but some of us are looking at the stars.”
- Oscar Wilde |
“Be yourself; everyone else
is already taken.”
- Oscar Wilde |
“It is what you read when
you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help
it.”
- Oscar Wilde |
“I don't want to go to
heaven. None of my friends are there.”
- Oscar Wilde |
“Always forgive your
enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
- Oscar Wilde |
“To live is the rarest thing
in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
- Oscar Wilde |
“The truth is rarely pure
and never simple.”
- Oscar Wilde |
“The books that the world
calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
- Oscar Wilde |
“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a
dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is
that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
- Oscar Wilde |
“I am so clever that
sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
- Oscar Wilde |
“Women are meant to be
loved, not to be understood.”
- Oscar Wilde |
“A good friend will always
stab you in the front.”
- Oscar Wilde |
“Anyone who lives within
their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
- Oscar Wilde |
“A cynic is a man who knows
the price of everything, and the value of nothing.”
- Oscar Wilde |
“Never love anyone who
treats you like you're ordinary.”
- Oscar Wilde |
“If you want to tell people
the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.”
- Oscar Wilde |
“A thing is not necessarily
true because a man dies for it.”
― Oscar Wilde |
“I have the simplest
tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”
― Oscar Wilde |
“You don't love someone for
their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing
a song only you can hear.”
― Oscar Wilde |
“Selfishness is not living
as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to
live.”
― Oscar Wilde |
“I think God, in creating
man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”
― Oscar Wilde |
“Anybody can sympathise with
the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise
with a friend's success.”
― Oscar Wilde |
“Everything in the world is
about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
― Oscar Wilde |
“Nowadays people know the
price of everything and the value of nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde, |
“Man is least himself when
he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the
truth.”
― Oscar Wilde |
“Life is never fair, and
perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.”
― Oscar Wilde |
“When one is in love, one
always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving
others. That is what the world calls a romance.”
― Oscar Wilde, |
“Art is the only serious
thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never
serious.”
― Oscar Wilde |
“There are only two kinds of
people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and
people who know absolutely nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde |
“Society often forgives the
criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.”
― Oscar Wilde |
“Indeed I have always been
of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing
to do.”
― Oscar Wilde |
“Nothing can cure the soul
but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”
― Oscar Wilde, |
“An idea that is not
dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”
― Oscar Wilde |
“Music makes one feel so
romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing
nowadays.”
― Oscar Wilde |
“There are many things that
we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them
up.”
― Oscar Wilde |
“Laughter is not at all a
bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for
one.”
― Oscar Wilde, |
“Live! Live the wonderful
life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for
new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde, |
“It takes great deal of
courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love
it.”
― Oscar Wilde, |
“I may not agree with you,
but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.”
― Oscar Wilde |
“The mystery of love is
greater than the mystery of death.”
― Oscar Wilde, |
