Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- “There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.”
by Oscar Wilde - “It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly.”
by Oscar Wilde - “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.”
by Oscar Wilde - “Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.”
by Oscar Wilde - “I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.”
by Oscar Wilde - “A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.”
by Oscar Wilde - “If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.”
by Oscar Wilde - “The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.”
by Oscar Wilde - “If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.”
by Oscar Wilde - “Hatred is blind, as well as love.”
by Oscar Wilde - “Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.”
by Oscar Wilde - “Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.”
by Oscar Wilde - “I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”
by Oscar Wilde - “I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.”
by Oscar Wilde - “Biography lends to death a new terror.”
by Oscar Wilde - “There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
by Oscar Wilde - “Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.”
by Oscar Wilde - “The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.”
by Oscar Wilde - “I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.”
by Oscar Wilde - “A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.”
by Oscar Wilde