Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

Quotes

• Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex.

• To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

• Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live.

• Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

• It is an odd thing, but everyone who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and possess all the attractions of the next world.

• I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.

• Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.

• Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

• Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same

• I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

• The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

• The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.

• The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk.

• Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist.

• Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

• Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

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

• What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

• Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

• Philanthropy is the refuge of rich people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.