Famous Quotes / Oscar Wilde
620 Quotations by Oscar Wilde
- 481. The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
- 482. The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with ...
- 483. The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to ...
- 484. The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.
- 485. The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common!
- 486. The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.
- 487. The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism ...
- 488. The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
- 489. The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- 490. The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis ...
- 491. The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything. I've ...
- 492. The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for ...
- 493. The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.
- 494. The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of S ...
- 495. The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips t ...
- 496. The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.
- 497. The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.
- 498. The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.
- 499. The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain them. Men can be analyzed, ...
- 500. The suspense is terrible, I hope it will last.