Oscar Wilde quotes

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
Oscar Wilde

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

A good friend will always stab you in the front.
Oscar Wilde

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is nonetheless true that life imitates art far more than
art imitates life.
Oscar Wilde

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

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

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
Oscar Wilde

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.
Oscar Wilde

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
Oscar Wilde

Children have a natural antipathy to books - handicraft should be the basis of education.
Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be
less apt to destroy and be mischievous.
Oscar Wilde

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is
through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through
rebellion.
Oscar Wilde

I never travel without my diary. One must always have something sensational to read on the
train.
Oscar Wilde

There is no sin except stupidity.
Oscar Wilde

Who, being loved, is poor?
Oscar Wilde

Poets know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many
editions.
Oscar Wilde

Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.
Oscar Wilde

It is always nice to be expected and not to arrive.
Oscar Wilde

It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of
himself, can end sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.
Oscar Wilde

With regard to modern journalists, they always apologize to one in private for what they have
written against one in public.
Oscar Wilde

No man should have a secret from his wife - she invariably finds it out.
Oscar Wilde

The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for
dyed hair.
Oscar Wilde

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
Oscar Wilde

One should never take sides in anything. Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity and
earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.
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

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
Oscar Wilde

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