Wilde, Oscar (Oscar Wilde)

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple.
-- Oscar Wilde

If you wish to understand others, you must intensify your own individualism.
-- Oscar Wilde

To have become a deeper man is he privilege of those who have suffered.
-- Oscar Wilde

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

-- Oscar Wilde

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

Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world.
-- Oscar Wilde

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde

There is no sin except stupidity.
-- Oscar Wilde

In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.
-- Oscar Wilde

Religions die when they are proven to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.
-- Oscar Wilde

All bad art is the result of good intentions.
-- Oscar Wilde

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative
-- Oscar Wilde

Democracy is the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde

Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
-- Oscar Wilde

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde

England and America - Two countries divided by one common language
-- Oscar Wilde

Hard work is the refuge of those who have nothing whatever to do.
-- Oscar Wilde

I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.
-- Oscar Wilde

I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.
-- Oscar Wilde

I am dying as I have lived: beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde

I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde

I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes one far too conceited.
-- Oscar Wilde

I don't recognize you - I've changed a lot.
-- Oscar Wilde

I have nothing to declare except my Genius.
-- Oscar Wilde

I have but the simplest taste - I am always satisfied with the best
-- Oscar Wilde

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
-- Oscar Wilde

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
-- Oscar Wilde

It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about, nowadays, saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.
-- Oscar Wilde

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

No man is rich enough to buy back his own past.
-- Oscar Wilde

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde

The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.
-- Oscar Wilde

The supreme vice is shallowness.
-- Oscar Wilde

The value of an idea has nothing to do with the sincerity of the person expressing it.
-- Oscar Wilde

To be popular one must be a mediocrity.
-- Oscar Wilde

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

The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.
-- Oscar Wilde

My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.
-- Oscar Wilde

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
-- Oscar Wilde

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.
-- Oscar Wilde

When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?
-- Oscar Wilde

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.
-- Oscar Wilde

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught.

-- Oscar Wilde

In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.
-- Oscar Wilde

One can live for years sometimes without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into one single hour.

-- Oscar Wilde

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

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
-- Oscar Wilde

Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde

Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar Wilde

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde

Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
-- Oscar Wilde

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.
-- Oscar Wilde

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune... To lose both seems like carelessness.
-- Oscar Wilde

Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.
-- Oscar Wilde