I am not young enough to know everything.
Oscar Wilde
Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
Oscar Wilde
A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
Oscar Wilde
Love Quotes
It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.
Oscar Wilde
It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
Oscar Wilde
The fact is, you have fallen lately, Cecily, into a bad habit of thinking for yourself. You should give it up. It is not quite womanly... men don't like it.
Oscar Wilde
Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.
Oscar Wilde
Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
Oscar Wilde
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
Oscar Wilde
One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
Oscar Wilde
She is absolutely inadmissible into society. Many a woman has a past, but I am told that she has at least a dozen, and that they all fit.
Oscar Wilde
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
Oscar Wilde
I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.
Oscar Wilde
Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbable.
Oscar Wilde
If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
Oscar Wilde
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.