The Best Oskar Oskar Wilde Quotes

Life makes us pay too high a price for its wares, and we purchase the meanest of its secrets at a cost that is monstrous and infinite.

Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure.

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

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

The body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing. To morals belong the lower and less intellectual spheres.

Public opinion exists only where there are no ideas.

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one centre of pain.

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others. Health is the primary duty of life.

The mimicry of passion is the most intolerable of all poses.

The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely.