Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

Quotes

• I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

• We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

• A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

• Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

• Punctuality is the thief of time.

• I can resist everything except temptation.

• Ultimately the bond of all companionship, wheather in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.

• One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.

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

• Where there is no exaggeration there is no love, and where there is no love there is no understanding.

• It is only about things that do not interest one, that one can give a really unbiased opinion; and this is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always valueless.

• There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

• The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.

• Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.

• All art is quite useless.

• No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

• There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

• A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.

• The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

• Alas, I am dying beyond my means.