Quotations from Oscar Wilde



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

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

Everything popular is wrong.

Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously.

Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbable.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Only the shallow know themselves.

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

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

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

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

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.