Quotes by Oscar Wilde :: Finest Quotes

~ I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world. ~

Oscar Wilde

~ Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all. ~

Oscar Wilde

~ The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others. ~

Oscar Wilde

~ I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. ~

Oscar Wilde

~ To get into the best society nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people ~

Oscar Wilde

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

Oscar Wilde

~ I love acting. It is so much more real than life. ~

Oscar Wilde

~ We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. ~

Oscar Wilde

~ It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution ~

Oscar Wilde

~ To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity ~

Oscar Wilde

~ Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions ~

Oscar Wilde

~ Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. ~

Oscar Wilde

~ Only the shallow know themselves ~

Oscar Wilde

~ Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow ~

Oscar Wilde

~ It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. ~

Oscar Wilde

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