Oscar Wilde Quotes

Oscar Wilde

Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.

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Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

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The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

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As for a spoiled life, no life is spoiled but one whose growth is arrested.

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A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain.

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To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

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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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To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you.

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Fashion, by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.

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Of course I have played outdoor games. I once played dominoes in an open air cafe in Paris.

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I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

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God's eternal laws are kind-and break the heart of stone.

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Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

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Civilisation is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.

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A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.

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Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

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Skepticism is the beginning of Faith.

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London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.

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My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.

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There are only two tragedies in life one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

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Woman's first duty in life is to her dressmaker. What the second duty is no one has yet discovered.

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Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.

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I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.

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If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself you rise from the table richer, and conscious that a high ideal has for a moment touched and sanctified your days.

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