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.

I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.

Man is many things, but he is not rational.

To become a work of art is the object of living.

It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.

JACK: I will be back in a few moments, dear Canon. Gwendolen! Wait here for me!GWENDOLEN: If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

I hope, Cecily, I shall not offend you if I state quite frankly and openly that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection.

If something cannot be done to check, or at least to modify, our monstrous worship of facts, art will become sterile and beauty will pass away from the land.

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul.

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible not the invisible.

Christ did not die to save people, but to teach people how to save each other. This is, I have no doubt, a grave heresy, but it is also a fact.