Moderation is a fatal thing; nothing succeeds like excess.
– Oscar Wilde
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
– Oscar Wilde
There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book; books are well written or badly written.
– Oscar Wilde
The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life’s tragedy.
– Oscar Wilde
What seems to us bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.
– Oscar Wilde
I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.
– Oscar Wilde
Most people are other people.Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
– Oscar Wilde
One’s real life is often the life that one does not lead.
– Oscar Wilde
It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.
– Oscar Wilde
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
– Oscar Wilde
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
– Oscar Wilde
The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.
– Oscar Wilde
His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be.
– Oscar Wilde
I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.
– Oscar Wilde
Men always want to be a woman’s first love women like to be a man’s last romance.
– Oscar Wilde
The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
– Oscar Wilde
I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
– Oscar Wilde
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy.No man does. That’s his.
– Oscar Wilde
Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.
– Oscar Wilde
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
– Oscar Wilde