Oscar wilde quotes

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

Simple pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world.

Don't use big words. They mean so little.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise

If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.

The best revenge is to live well.

Sometimes, the unnecessary is necessary.

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.

Any place that we love becomes our world.

Be moderate in all things, including moderation.

Nature: a place where birds fly around uncooked

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards.

I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

The answers are all out there, we just need to ask the right questions.

I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.

It is perfectly possible to get what you think you want and be miserable. It's possible too, to never get it but deeply enjoy the process of trying. In this world, there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life.

Sooner or later we have all to pay for what we do.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

It's beauty that captures your attention. personality which captures your heart.

Just be your self. Everybody else is already taken.

Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.

Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.

Marriage is a long, dull meal with dessert served at the beginning.

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

The only way to get rid of tempation is to yeild to it.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

God grant me the serenity to accept that people are ignorant, the courage to uphold the law when I'm hostile, & the wisdom to realize that murder is illegal.

In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.

To look at a thing is very different from seeing it.

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

Love is like a war; easy to start but hard to end and you never know where it might take you.

Life is too short to be taken seriously.

I have a simple taste, only the best.

I beg your pardon I didn't recognise you - I've changed a lot.

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

A mask tells us more than a face.

A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Some people always know the price, but not the value

There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.

Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.

To define is to limit.

I never put off till tomorrow what I can do the day after.

The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.

Those who have much are often greedy. Those who have little always share.

With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.

Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one.

It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.

You are Beautiful when you are happy

Cats are put on earth to remind us that not everything has a purpose.

The only one you need in your life is that person who shows you he needs you in his.

People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.

Children start out loving their parents, but as they grow older and discover their parents are human, they become judgmental. And sometimes, when they mature, they forgive their parents, especially when they discover they are also human.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?

Let me be surrounded by luxury, I can do without the necessities!

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.

The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognizes infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it.

To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.

Men as a rule love with their eyes, woman with their ears.

Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.

Always be a little unexpected.

Placerea este testul naturii, semnul ei aprobator.

Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well. If it is worth having, it is worth waiting for. If it is worth attaining, it is worth fighting for. If it is worth experiencing, it is worth putting aside time for.

An idea that isn't risky is hardly worth calling an idea.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.

Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.

Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

True contentment is not having everything, but in being satisfied with everything you have.

Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.

If we're always guided by other people's thoughts, what's the point in having our own?

In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?

I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

I have no objection to anyone's sex life as long as they don't practice it in the street and frighten the horses.

I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.

Learn to differentiate between ignorance and stupidity.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

If you cannot prove a man wrong, don't panic. You can always call him names.

Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.

Circumstances should never alter principles!

Love is a misunderstanding between two fools.