Oscar Wilde Quotes

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

Oscar Wilde

Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

Oscar Wilde

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Oscar Wilde

"The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth."

Oscar Wilde

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

Oscar Wilde

Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.

Oscar Wilde

I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.

Oscar Wilde

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

Oscar Wilde

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

Oscar Wilde

True friends stab you in the front

Oscar Wilde

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

Oscar Wilde

The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the LUXURY of a regret.

Oscar Wilde

Illusion is the first of all pleasures

Oscar Wilde

They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever

Oscar Wilde

To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance

Oscar Wilde