Quotes from Oscar Wilde
To be good is to be in harmony with oneself. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.
- Oscar Wilde
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
- Oscar Wilde
Only good questions deserve good answers.
- Oscar Wilde
To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
- Oscar Wilde
The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope.
- Oscar Wilde
Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach thy hand, For I am drowning in a stormier sea Than Simon on thy lake of Galilee
- Oscar Wilde
"I hope to-morrow will be a fine day, Lane." "It never is, sir." "Lane, you're a perfect pessimist." "I do my best to give satisfaction, sir."
- Oscar Wilde
The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.
- Oscar Wilde
And all, but Lust, is turned to dust In Humanity's machine.
- Oscar Wilde
Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.
- Oscar Wilde
If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.
- Oscar Wilde
It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously
- Oscar Wilde