The Best Oskar Oskar Wilde Quotes

The one charm about the past is that it is the past.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

A great poet a really great poet is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating.

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

Circumstances should never alter principles.

The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the guise of fiction.

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

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

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

One should absorb the color of life, but one should never remember its details.

You will always love, and you will always be loved

Who, being loved, is poor? .

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

There is no sin except stupidity.

Some things are more precious because they don't last.

It is better to be beautiful then to be good, but it is better to be good then to be ugly.