Quotes from Oscar Wilde
It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.
- Oscar Wilde
There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
- Oscar Wilde
Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
- Oscar Wilde
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
- Oscar Wilde
Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.
- Oscar Wilde
One can give a really unbiased opinion only about things that do not interest one
- Oscar Wilde
To get back to my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable
- Oscar Wilde
I do not approve of anything which tampers with natural ignorance.
- Oscar Wilde
Art is the most intense mode of invidualism that the world has known.
- Oscar Wilde
Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do
- Oscar Wilde
I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.
- Oscar Wilde
An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship
- Oscar Wilde