“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.”
— Oscar Wilde
“And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”
— Oscar Wilde
“Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.”
— Oscar Wilde
“I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.”
— Oscar Wilde
“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
— Oscar Wilde
“I can resist everything except temptation.”
— Oscar Wilde
“We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.”
— Oscar Wilde
“A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.”
— Oscar Wilde
“My own business always bores me to death. I prefer other people's.”
— Oscar Wilde
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
— Oscar Wilde
“There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.”
— Oscar Wilde
“I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.”
— Oscar Wilde
“To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.”
— Oscar Wilde
“Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”
— Oscar Wilde