Oscar Wilde

If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

Oscar Wilde

If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.

Oscar Wilde

If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.

Oscar Wilde

If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn’t deserve to have any.

Oscar Wilde

If you are going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh or they will kill you.

Oscar Wilde

If you cannot prove a man wrong, don’t panic. You can always call him names.

Oscar Wilde

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn’t. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

Oscar Wilde

If you want to be witty, say what you think at all times.

Oscar Wilde

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.

Oscar Wilde

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs for ever and ever.

Oscar Wilde