Oscar Wilde
224 quotations
I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.
I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.
As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg.
The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.
It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.
Charity creates a multitude of sins.
All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.
It's absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.
Good taste is the excuse I have given for leading such a bad life.
Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
I can resist everything except temptation.
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.
Time is waste of money.
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train.
All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.
One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. If she tells that, she'll tell anything.
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.