1. Oscar Wilde - “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.”

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2. Oscar Wilde - “To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”

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3. Oscar Wilde - “A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.”

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4. Oscar Wilde - “The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.”

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5. Oscar Wilde - “I am not young enough to know everything.”

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6. Oscar Wilde - “There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.”

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7. Oscar Wilde - “A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.”

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8. Oscar Wilde - “Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.”

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9. Oscar Wilde - “Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.”

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10. Oscar Wilde - “Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.”

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11. Oscar Wilde - “Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.”

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12. Oscar Wilde - “Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.”

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13. Oscar Wilde - “Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.”

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14. Oscar Wilde - “The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.”

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15. Oscar Wilde - “The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.”

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16. Oscar Wilde - “One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.”

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17. Oscar Wilde - “The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.”

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18. Oscar Wilde - “Who, being loved, is poor?”

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19. Oscar Wilde - “All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.”

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20. Oscar Wilde - “Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”

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21. Oscar Wilde - “No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.”

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22. Oscar Wilde - “A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.”

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23. Oscar Wilde - “As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. The change will, of course, be slow, and people will not be conscious of it.”

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24. Oscar Wilde - “The old believe everything: the middle-aged suspect everything: the young know everything.”

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25. Oscar Wilde - “A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”

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