Quotes by Oscar Wilde
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - The unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.
Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
