Quotes from Oscar Wilde

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.

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

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

I am not young enough to know everything.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Hearts are made to be broken.

You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.

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