Oscar Wilde Quotes

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.

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

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

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.

There is no sin except stupidity.

Men always want to be a woman’s first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about these things. What (women) like is to be a man’s last romance.

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.

I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.

Life is too short to learn German

The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.