Quotes Oscar Wilde

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards...

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which peopl...

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead....

Only the shallow know themselves....

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your s...

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom f...

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious....

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I mys...

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, cho...

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are....

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit....

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

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin w...

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is askin...

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow....

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world t...

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they ...

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get th...

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray....

The basis of optimism is sheer terror....

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show t...

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educ...

The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of not...

The difference between literature and journalism is that jou...

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what ...