Oscar Wilde Quotes

There is no sin except stupidity.

Oscar Wilde

The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.

Oscar Wilde

I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.

Oscar Wilde

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

Oscar Wilde

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

Oscar Wilde

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Oscar Wilde

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