The Best Oskar Oskar Wilde Quotes

Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.

The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.

Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.

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

Failure is only the name that we give to our mistakes.

The living always think that gold can make them happy.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Secret to remain young is to have an inordinate passion for pleasure.

Who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.

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

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.

It is very romantic to be in love.

Duty is what one expects from others.

Pleasure is the only thing worth having a theory about

Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians.

Memory is the diary we all carry about with us.

Vice and virtue are the artist’s materials for an art.

Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.

Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.