Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 4

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Life is one fool thing after another where as love is two fool things after each other.
- Oscar Wilde

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An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.
- Oscar Wilde

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One’s past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
- Oscar Wilde

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One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
- Oscar Wilde

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I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
- Oscar Wilde

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I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
- Oscar Wilde

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What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.
- Oscar Wilde

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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
- Oscar Wilde

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I would rather have my people laugh at my economies than weep for my extravagance.
- Oscar Wilde

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Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
- Oscar Wilde

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Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde

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Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
- Oscar Wilde

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Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
- Oscar Wilde

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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
- Oscar Wilde

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The aim of life is self-development. To realize one’s nature perfectly that is what each of us is here for.
- Oscar Wilde

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Who, being loved, is poor?
- Oscar Wilde

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By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
- Oscar Wilde

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No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
- Oscar Wilde

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To become a spectator of one’s own life is to escape the suffering of life.
- Oscar Wilde

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