I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.
OSCAR WILDEI choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.
OSCAR WILDEIt is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
OSCAR WILDEOne should always be in love. That’s the reason one should never marry.
OSCAR WILDEMan is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
OSCAR WILDEHear no evil, speak no evil, and you won’t be invited to cocktail parties.
OSCAR WILDEEverything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.
OSCAR WILDEThere is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
OSCAR WILDEAlways forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
OSCAR WILDELife is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
OSCAR WILDEYou can never be overdressed or overeducated.
OSCAR WILDEEvery portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
OSCAR WILDEDeath must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
OSCAR WILDEI am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
OSCAR WILDEMost people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
OSCAR WILDEThe basis of optimism is sheer terror.
OSCAR WILDESociety often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
OSCAR WILDE