Quotes from Oscar Wilde
The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
- Oscar Wilde
The one charm about the past is that it is the past.
- Oscar Wilde
Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.
- Oscar Wilde
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde
I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
- Oscar Wilde
Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
- Oscar Wilde
To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.
- Oscar Wilde
One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.
- Oscar Wilde
It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love
- Oscar Wilde
After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.
- Oscar Wilde
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
- Oscar Wilde
Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.
- Oscar Wilde