Quotes from Oscar Wilde

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

Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination.

What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.

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

I may have said the same thing before... but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different.

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught.

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.

In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.

One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one's hearers.