The Best Oskar Oskar Wilde Quotes

Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.

Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak.

The great things of life are what they seem to be, and for that reason, strange as it may sound to you, are often difficult to interpret. But the little things of life are symbols. We receive our bitter lessons most easily through them.

Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.

There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book; books are well written or badly written.

The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.

Sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.

An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories.

The great thing in life, to live the truth.

One could never pay too high a price for any sensation.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.

Sincerity is the last refuge of the shallow.