The Best Oskar Oskar Wilde Quotes

The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we can see life as a whole, by which and by which alone we can understand others in their real and their ideal relation. Only what is fine, and finely conceived can feed love. But anything will feed hate.

Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.

The young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefit of their inexperience.

The life that was to make his soul would mar his body.

To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

To look wise is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.

An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship. It starts in the right manner.

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

There is no mystery so great as misery.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.