Oscar Wilde

“Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.”

“The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.”

“Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.”

“If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.”

“Realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the co...”

“Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.”

“Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.”

“Christ did not die to save people, but to teach people how to save each other. This is, I have no doubt, a grave heresy, but it is also a fact.”

“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise”

“The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.”

“You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.”

“Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture...”

“LADY BRACKNELL To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisa...”

“Punctuality is the thief of time”

“Time is a waste of money.”

“Punctuality is the thief of time.”

“The world had always loved the saint as being the nearest possible approach to the perfection of God. Christ, through some divine instinct in him, seems to have always loved the sinner as be...”

“nothing that is worth knowing can be taught”

“The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.”

“The English novels are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed. But one should not be too severe on them. They show a want of knowledge that must be the result of years of study...”