I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
– Oscar Wilde
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
– Oscar Wilde
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
– Oscar Wilde
Simple pleasures are always the last refuge of the complex.
– Oscar Wilde
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
– Oscar Wilde
Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.
– Oscar Wilde
I have nothing to declare except my genius.
– Oscar Wilde
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
– Oscar Wilde
Patriotism, the virtue of the vicious.
– Oscar Wilde
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
– Oscar Wilde
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
– Oscar Wilde
The basis for optimism is sheer terror.
– Oscar Wilde
Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
– Oscar Wilde
Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.
– Oscar Wilde
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.
– Oscar Wilde
A man who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in that position.
– Oscar Wilde
Memory… is the diary that we all carry about with us.
– Oscar Wilde
Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.
– Oscar Wilde
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
– Oscar Wilde
A true gentlemen is one who is never unintentionally rude.
– Oscar Wilde