Oscar Wilde Quotes

"Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about." "I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best." "Selfishness must always be forgiven, you know, because there is no hope of a cure" "The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about." "To define is to limit." "I have nothing to declare except my genius." "What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing." "Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known." "Be yourself because everyone else is already taken." "When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers." "It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste" "Arguments are to be avoided they are always vulgar and often convincing" "We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities" "The truth is rarely pure and never simple according to Oscar Wilde" "To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness." "Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul." "In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it." "I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train." "Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives." "I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it."