Oscar Wilde Quotes

"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."

"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."

"There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."

"There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it."

"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."

"I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best."

"The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future."

"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."

"I can resist everything except temptation."

"Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them."

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

"To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness."

"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead."

"The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation."

"If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life."

"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."

"Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much."

"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."

"Women are made to be loved, not understood."

"True friends stab you in the front."

"Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious."

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

"Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life."

"When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers."

"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his."

"Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance."

"Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us."

"To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect."

"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."