Oscar Wilde Quotes

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

I am dying beyond my means.

A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten.

To know anything about oneself, one must know all about others. There must be no mood with which one cannot sympathize, no dead mode of life that one cannot make alive. The legacies of heredity may make us alter our views of moral responsibility, but they cannot but intensify our sense of the value of […]

If England treats her criminals the way she has treated me, she doesn’t deserve to have any.

Anybody can be good in the country.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect – simply a confession of failures.

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm.

Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.