The Best Oskar Oskar Wilde Quotes

Art only begins where Imitation ends.

The heart was made to be broken.

We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is a man's original virtue.

I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.

Sometimes, the unnecessary is necessary.

Behind joy and laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind Sorrow there is always sorrow. Pain, unlike Pleasure, wears no mask.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.

Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

The only things that one can use in fiction are the things that one has ceased to use in fact.

It is so easy to convince others; it is so difficult to convince oneself.

When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.

The one charm of the past is that it is in the past.

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

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.