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Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

Oscar Wilde

Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.

Oscar Wilde

I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.

Oscar Wilde

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

Oscar Wilde

That's the way I like pop music to be: write a good song, sing it, and get on with the next before there's time to think about it too much.

Kim Wilde

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

Oscar Wilde

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

Oscar Wilde

It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is fatal.

Oscar Wilde

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

Oscar Wilde

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons.

Oscar Wilde

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

Oscar Wilde

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Oscar Wilde

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Oscar Wilde

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling I have always cultivated.

Oscar Wilde

One can survive anything these days, except death, and live down anything except a good reputation.

Oscar Wilde

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Oscar Wilde

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

Oscar Wilde

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

Oscar Wilde

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Oscar Wilde

It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

Oscar Wilde

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

Oscar Wilde

My parents have a wonderful marriage, for many years. But I can't commit myself for such a long time.

Kim Wilde

Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

Oscar Wilde

... Nature, whose sweet rains fall of just and unjust alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undetected. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.

Oscar Wilde