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Quotes from Oscar Wilde

What is beautiful is a joy for all seasons.
- Oscar Wilde
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
- 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
I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five
- Oscar Wilde
Just to let you know that the buffet car will be closing for stocktaking in five minutes. The next station stop is Chesterfield.
- Oscar Wilde
Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination.
- Oscar Wilde
Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
- Oscar Wilde
There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has a right to blame us.
- Oscar Wilde
There is luxury in self reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
- Oscar Wilde
Only the shallow know themselves.
- Oscar Wilde
An ordinary man away from home giving advice.
- Oscar Wilde
Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.
- Oscar Wilde