To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young (1894)
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Oscar Wilde quotes
1854-1900 · Writers and poets
Irish playwright and wit, author of The Importance of Being Earnest.
13 quotes, 13 traced to where Wilde said or wrote them.
Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.
Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), Act III
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), Act III
I can resist everything except temptation.
Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), Act I
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), ch. 1
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), Act I
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
The Soul of Man under Socialism (1891)
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are some one else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
De Profundis (written 1897, published 1905)
A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), Act III, Lord Darlington defining a cynic
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
The Relation of Dress to Art (1885)
Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
A Woman of No Importance (1893), Act III
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.
Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), Act I
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
The Soul of Man under Socialism (1891)