Quotes by Oscar Wilde
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Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.
Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
I have nothing to declare except my genius.
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
There are two tragedies in life; one is not getting what you want. The other is having to go to Wales on holiday.
One should always play fairly... when one has the winning cards.
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end; If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man's last romance.
I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.
Pleasure is Nature’s test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.