The Best Oskar Oskar Wilde Quotes

Friendship is not something you learn in school,but if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship you really haven't learned anything.

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

Art has no influence upon action. It annihilates the desire to act. It is superbly sterile. The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

Youth is the only thing worth having.

Arguments are to be avoided, they are always vulgar and often convincing.

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly that is what each of us is here for.

A sentimentalist is simply one who wants to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it. We think we can have our emotions for nothing. We cannot.

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.

A man who takes himself too seriously will find that no one else takes him seriously.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.

Life at times loses its sense of reality; it appears to us like a weird, optical illusion

Punctuality is the thief of time.

It's beauty that captures your attention; personality that captures your heart.