Oscar Wilde

The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously – and have somebody find out.

Oscar Wilde

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.

Oscar Wilde

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

Oscar Wilde

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

Oscar Wilde

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune – to lose both seems like carelessness.

Oscar Wilde

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

Oscar Wilde

We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.

Oscar Wilde

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

Oscar Wilde

A beggar hates his benefactor as much as he hates himself for begging.

Oscar Wilde