Here are some of my favorite quotes by the Irish dramatist, Oscar Wilde.


"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months." -Oscar Wilde

"A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies." -Oscar Wilde

"Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing." -Oscar Wilde

"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative." -Oscar Wilde

"I am not young enough to know everything." -Oscar Wilde

"It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information." -Oscar Wilde

"Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event." -Oscar Wilde

"Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays." - Oscar Wilde

"One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation." -Oscar Wilde

"Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow." -Oscar Wilde

"The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself. -Oscar Wilde

"The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible." -Oscar Wilde

"To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity. " -Oscar Wilde

"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong." -Oscar Wilde

"Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast." -Oscar Wilde

"One's real life is often the life that one does not lead." -Oscar Wilde

"Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about." -Oscar Wilde

"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes." -Oscar Wilde

"What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing." -Oscar Wilde

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." -Oscar Wilde

"Only the shallow know themselves." -Oscar Wilde

"We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language." -Oscar Wilde

"The truth is rarely pure and never simple." -Oscar Wilde

"The basis of optimism is sheer terror." -Oscar Wilde

"There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up." -Oscar Wilde

"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written." -Oscar Wilde