The Best Oskar Oskar Wilde Quotes

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

Irony is wasted on the stupid.

The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.

One must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.

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

Where your life leads you, you must go

Every single human being should be the fulfilment of a prophecy.

Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.

You never say a moral thing, and you never do a wrong thing.

The rich would have spoken on the value of thrift and the idle grown eloquent over the dignity of labor.

Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.

One is not always happy when one is good, but one is always good when one is happy.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is non the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

A mask tells us more than a face.

The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

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.