It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Please, tell me the truth. The truth, who knows the truth? You've heart knows the truth.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“In matters of great importance, style, not sincerity is the vital thing.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“True. In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
And, by the way, one of the most delightful things I find in America is meeting a people without prejudice -- everywhere… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“For what is truth? In matters of religion, it is simply the opinion that has survived. In matters of science, it is… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If you are going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh or they will kill you. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The only form of lying that is absolutely beyond reproach is lying for its own sake. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“the value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Insincerity is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I give the truths of tomorrow." "I prefer the mistakes of today," she answered.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
My dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth; I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
