Wisdom comes with winters.
We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
De Profundis, 1905
Oscar Wilde
Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900)
One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.
Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900)
The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.
Oscar Wilde, "The Remarkable Rocket"
The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.
Oscar Wilde, "A Woman of No Importance", Act 3
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
Oscar Wilde, "An Ideal husband", 1893
My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.
Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892
One's real life is often the life that one does not lead.
Oscar Wilde, L'Envoi, 1882
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act I
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III
Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III
To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.
Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist
It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, 1891
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, 1891
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, part 2, 1891
Do not speak ill of society, Algie. Only people who can't get in do that.
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895, Act I
I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made.
Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.
Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism (1881)
I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.
Oscar Wilde, upon being told the cost of an operation
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Biography lends to death a new terror.
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.
I am not young enough to know everything.
I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability.
If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is fatal.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.
She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.
Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.
One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Cuando la gente está de acuerdo conmigo siempre siento que debo estar equivocado.
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