Irish poet and playwright
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. – Oscar Wilde
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. – Oscar Wilde
I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex. – Oscar Wilde
They’ve promised that dreams can come true – but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too. – Oscar Wilde
The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding. – Oscar Wilde
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. – Oscar Wilde
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable. – Oscar Wilde
One should always play fair when one has the winning cards. – Oscar Wilde
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. – Oscar Wilde
A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her. – Oscar Wilde
Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power. – Oscar Wilde
The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are. – Oscar Wilde
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals. – Oscar Wilde
Hatred is blind, as well as love. – Oscar Wilde
The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth. – 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
Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women’s husbands. – Oscar Wilde
Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation. – Oscar Wilde
One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything, except a good reputation. – Oscar Wilde
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up. – Oscar Wilde
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