What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Jack: “Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking… — 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
Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
My dear fellow, the truth isn’t quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“In matters of great importance, style, not sincerity is the vital thing.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Women have no appreciation of good looks—at least, good women have not.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Now, the value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. Indeed, the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the… — 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
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
“True. In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.” — 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
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Jack: [Slowly and hesitatingly] “Gwendolen–Cecily–it is very painful for me to be forced to speak the truth. It is the first time… — 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 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
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
“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
“Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities. Such,” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Early in life she had discovered the important truth that nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion; and by a series… — 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
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
“Well, the way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test reality we must see it on the tight rope. When… — 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
![“Jack: [Slowly and hesitatingly] “Gwendolen–Cecily–it is very painful for me to be forced to speak the truth. It is the first time in my life that I have ever been reduced to such a painful position, and I am really quite inexperienced in doing anything of the kind.” quote by Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1d5/oscar-wilde-16_first-time_jack-slowly-and-hesitatingly-gwendolen-c_910632.jpg)
