Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854-10-16 – 1900-11-30) was an Irish playwright, poet and author of essays and novels.

Found 239 thoughts of Oscar Wilde

The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others.

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did he would cease to be an artist.

Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature it requires, in fact, that nature of a true Individualist to sympathize with a friend's success.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses once!

But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is going good.

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

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

There is no sin except stupidity.

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There is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.

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.

The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

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.

There is luxury in self reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

I am not young enough to know everything.

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The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women merely adored.

Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them more.

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Never speak disrespectfully of Society. Only people who can't get into it do that.

I have nothing to declare but my genius.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.

If there is anything in the world more annoying than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.

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