Oscar Wilde Quotes

Writing bores me so.

It is only by not paying one’s bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

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

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

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

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

I can resist everything except temptation.

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

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

The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman’s heart.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.