Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
I can resist everything except temptation.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.
I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.
The heart was made to be broken.
I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world’s original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, history would have been different.
I don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.
Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
Whenever people agree with me, I always feel I must be wrong.
Oscar Wilde Famous Quotes part 2
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
I have nothing to declare except my genius.
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train.
You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
I am not young enough to know everything.
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
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