172 Quotes By Oscar Wilde


I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde on good

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
Oscar Wilde on good

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
Oscar Wilde on good

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

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

When good Americans die they go to Paris.
Oscar Wilde on good

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
Oscar Wilde on good

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
Oscar Wilde on good

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
Oscar Wilde on good

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
Oscar Wilde on good

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
Oscar Wilde on great

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
Oscar Wilde on great

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
Oscar Wilde on great

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
Oscar Wilde on great

The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.
Oscar Wilde on great

Some cause happiness wherever they go others whenever they go.
Oscar Wilde on happiness

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
Oscar Wilde on hope

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
Oscar Wilde on hope

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
Oscar Wilde on imagination

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar Wilde on intelligence