Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 2

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.

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

The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

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

To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

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

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.

Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back again.