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Quotes by Johann Oscar Wilde 1-40
1 We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
2 I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
3 Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.
4 The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
5 Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
6 A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
7 There is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
8 One should always be a little improbable.
9 I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.
10 Everyone is brilliant at breakfast.
11 The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.
12 It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.
13 After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relatives.
14 Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
15 In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
16 Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.
17 The more one analysis people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.
18 Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.
19 I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
20 Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.
21 I have always been of opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.
22 The aim of life is self-development. To realize one’s nature perfectly – that is what each of us is here for.
23 One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
24 I always like to know everything about me new friends, and nothing about me old ones.
25 Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
26 Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.
27 In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.
28 The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away.
29 Everything in moderation, including moderation.
30 It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
31 A burnt child loves the fire.
32 Clarity creates a multitude of sins.
33 Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.
34 There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
35 Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.
36 After the first glass, you see thing as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.
37 I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
38 We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.
39 Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.
40 The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously – and have somebody find out.
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