The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
OSCAR WILDEThe basis of optimism is sheer terror.
OSCAR WILDEAnyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
OSCAR WILDEA cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
OSCAR WILDEI don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.
OSCAR WILDEI choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.
OSCAR WILDECrying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.
OSCAR WILDEAlways forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
OSCAR WILDEIt is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
OSCAR WILDEAnybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.
OSCAR WILDEA thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
OSCAR WILDEMost people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
OSCAR WILDEBe yourself; everyone else is already taken.
OSCAR WILDENowadays 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.
OSCAR WILDESelfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
OSCAR WILDEThe truth is rarely pure and never simple.
OSCAR WILDEThere is no sin except stupidity.
OSCAR WILDE