Oscar Wilde Quotes

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

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

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

It's beauty that captures your attention. personality which captures your heart.

Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to.

Placerea este testul naturii, semnul ei aprobator.

Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.

The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.

We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.

They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.

I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.

People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.

Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.

There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.

Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.

Whenever one has anything unpleasant to say, one should always be quite candid.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.

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

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

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

True contentment is not having everything, but in being satisfied with everything you have.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

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.

A glass of absinthe is as poetical as anything in the world. What difference is there between a glass of absinthe and a sunset?

Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.

I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.

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

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .

The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.

Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

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

Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.

Some people always know the price, but not the value

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.

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

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