Quotes from Oscar Wilde

I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception.

It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.

He has no enemies, but he is intensely disliked by his friends.

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Art never expresses anything but itself.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what world calls a romance.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Skepticism is the beginning of faith.

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly -- that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to oneself.

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

The final mystery is oneself.

To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance

A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.

Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all