Quotes by Oscar Wilde

“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”

“America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.”

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”

“In politics, your friends are false, but your enemies are real”

“Strangers are friends you have yet to meet”

“I never saw a man who looked with such a wistful eye upon that little tent of blue which prisoners call the sky.”

“Dont give a woman advice: one should never give a woman anything she cant wear in the evening”

“Hatred is blind, as well as love.”

“There are different kinds of love, but they all have the same aim: possession”

“Trying to make someone fall in love with you is about as pointless as trying to control who you fall in love with.”

“One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. If she tells that, shell tell anything.”

“Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”

“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.”

“The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to you, often are very difficult to interpret (understand). Great passion are for the great of souls. Great events can only be seen by people who are on a level with them. We think we can have our visions for nothing. We cannot. Even the finest and most self-sacrificing visions have to paid for. Strangely enough, that is what makes them fine.”

“The fact is, you have fallen lately, Cecily, into a bad habit of thinking for yourself. You should give it up. It is not quite womanly... men dont like it.”

“The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.”

“Everything popular is wrong.”

“Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.”

“Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.”

“Why was I born with such contemporaries?”