Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
Oscar Wilde
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
Oscar Wilde
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Oscar Wilde
Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.
Oscar Wilde
Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.
Oscar Wilde
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
Oscar Wilde
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
Oscar Wilde
Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
Oscar Wilde
I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
Oscar Wilde
If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.
Oscar Wilde
One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
Oscar Wilde
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Oscar Wilde
The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde
I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.
Oscar Wilde
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde