Oscar Wilde Quotes

"Everything in moderation, including moderation."

"I have a very simple taste and only want the best."

"I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself."

"The heart was made to be broken."

"I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them."

"I have nothing to declare except my genius."

"Faith is the most plural thing there is."

"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."

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

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself."

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

"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."

"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."

"To define is to limit."

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

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."

"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."

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

"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist."

"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative."

"Illusion is the first of all pleasures."

"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead."

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

"The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius."

"Women are made to be loved, not to be understood."

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

"There is no sin except stupidity."

"We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities."

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

"I can resist everything except temptation."

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

"There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."