Oscar Wilde

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

Oscar Wilde

One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

Oscar Wilde

One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.

Oscar Wilde

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

Oscar Wilde

One’s only real life is the life one never leads.

Oscar Wilde

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

Oscar Wilde

Only the shallow know themselves.

Oscar Wilde

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

Oscar Wilde

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is non the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Oscar Wilde

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

Oscar Wilde