Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.
– Oscar Wilde
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious
– Oscar Wilde
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
– Oscar Wilde
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.
– Oscar Wilde
Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
– Oscar Wilde
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
– Oscar Wilde
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
– Oscar Wilde
Youth is wasted on the young.
– Oscar Wilde
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike.
– Oscar Wilde
Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.
– Oscar Wilde
Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
– Oscar Wilde
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
– Oscar Wilde
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
– Oscar Wilde
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
– Oscar Wilde
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
– Oscar Wilde
I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
– 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 am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.
– Oscar Wilde
I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
– Oscar Wilde
This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
– Oscar Wilde