“Only the shallow know themselves.”
– Oscar Wilde.
“Only the shallow know themselves.”
– Oscar Wilde.
“It’s not whether you win or lose, it’s how you place the blame.”
~ Oscar Wilde.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
– Oscar Wilde.
“Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.”
—Oscar Wilde.
“Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.”
—Oscar Wilde.
“I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.”
~ Oscar Wilde.
“A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.” – Oscar Wilde.
“How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being?”
—Oscar Wilde.
“The heart was meant to be broken.”
—Oscar Wilde.
“The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on; it is never of any use to oneself.”
—Oscar Wilde, Writer.
“Public opinion is of no value whatsoever. Even if people employ actual violence, they are not to be violent in turn. That would be to fall to the same low level. After all, even in prison, a man can be quite free. His soul can be free. His personality can be untroubled. He can be at peace. And, above all things, they are not to interfere with other people or judge them in any way. Personality is a very mysterious thing. A man cannot always be estimated by what he does. He may keep the law, and yet be worthless. He may break the law, and yet be fine. He may be bad, without ever doing anything bad. He may commit a sin against society, and yet realize through that sin his true perfection.”
—Oscar Wilde,The Soul of Man Under Socialism.
When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
Oscar Wilde
“Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.”
~Oscar Wilde.
“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it. ”
The sick do not ask if the hand that smooths their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin. –Oscar Wilde, writer (1854-1900)
Oscar Wilde, three-quarter length portrait, facing front, seated, leaning forward, left elbow resting on knee, hand to chin, holding walking stick in right hand, wearing coat. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“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.”
—Oscar Wilde.
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
—Oscar Wilde
“Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.”
—Oscar Wilde
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
—Oscar Wilde
I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
—Oscar Wilde
“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. ”
—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
I am not young enough to know everything.
—Oscar Wilde.
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
—Oscar Wilde