The Best Oskar Oskar Wilde Quotes

Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

The secrets of art are best learned in secret, and that beauty, like wisdom, loves the lonely worshipper.

Man is many things, but he is not rational.

A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.

Hearts live by being wounded.

People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves.

The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.

Only the shallow know themselves.

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art

Something was dead in each of us,And what was dead was Hope.

Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.