Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

"Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."
494 Quotes
"Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."
Oscar Wilde
"To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact talk to every woman as if you loved her and to every man as if he bored you."
Oscar Wilde
"To get into the best society nowadays one has either to feed people amuse people or shock people."
Oscar Wilde
"Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern one is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly."
Oscar Wilde
"A little sincerity is a dangerous thing and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal."
Oscar Wilde
"Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple and the simple thing is the right thing."
Oscar Wilde
"My great mistake the fault for which I can't forgive myself is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality."
Oscar Wilde
"To be on the alert is to live to be lulled into security is to die."
Oscar Wilde
"The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."
Oscar Wilde
"It is not the prisoners who need reformation it is the prisons."
Oscar Wilde
"It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone."
Oscar Wilde
"Relations are simply a tedious pack of people who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die."
Oscar Wilde
"Only the shallow know themselves."
Oscar Wilde
"I know not whether laws be right Or whether laws be wrong All that we know who lie in gaol Is that the wall is strong And that each day is like a year A year whose days are long."
Oscar Wilde
"When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers."
Oscar Wilde
"A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written."
Oscar Wilde
"A true gentlemen is one who is never unintentionally rude."
Oscar Wilde
"It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible not the invisible."
Oscar Wilde
"A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it."
Oscar Wilde
"Pessimist - one who when he has the choice of two evils chooses both."
Oscar Wilde
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