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A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892), Act III
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Critic as Artist (1891), Part II
I can resist everything except temptation.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892), Act I
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900
To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on; it is never of any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900
Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)In context
A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)In context
It is only about things that do not interest one, that one can give a really unbiased opinion; and this is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always valueless.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900
One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)In context
Yet each man kills the thing he loves, from all let this be heard. Some does it with a bitter look, some with a flattering word. The coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), Pt. I, st. 7In context
A kiss may ruin a human life.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900
It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)In context