Oscar Wilde Quotes

It is said that passion makes one think in a circle.

Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.

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

The basis for optimism is sheer terror.

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn’t. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

One can give a really unbiased opinion only about things that do not interest one.

The Gods bestowed on Max (Max Beerbohm) the gift of perpetual old age.

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

Spies are of no use nowadays. Their profession is over. The newspapers do their work instead.

In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the press.