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Oscar Wilde, writer (1854-1900)

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. -Oscar Wilde

Who, being loved, is poor? -Oscar Wilde, writer (1854-1900)

Only cynics know the price of everything and the value of nothing.-Oscar Wilde1854-1900

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. -Oscar Wilde.

The only thing one can do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself. -Oscar Wilde

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. -Oscar Wilde, writer (1854-1900)

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. -Oscar Wilde

I am not young enough to know everything.- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. -Oscar Wilde, writer (1854-1900)

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation. -Oscar Wilde, writer (1854-1900)

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. -Oscar Wilde

Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others. -Oscar Wilde

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands. -Oscar Wilde

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars - Oscar Wilde

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple. -Oscar Wilde, writer (1854-1900)

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. -Oscar Wilde, writer (1854-1900)

Every saint has a past and every sinner a future. -Oscar Wilde, writer (1854-1900)
The only difference between saints and sinners is that every saint has a past while every sinner has a future. -Oscar Wilde, writer (1854-1900)

Alas, I am dying beyond my means.-Oscar Wilde, as he sipped champagne on his deathbed