The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is so easy to convince others; it is so difficult to convince oneself. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To be good is to be in harmony with oneself. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. Nothing spoils romance so much as… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of… — 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 Image
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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 Image
