Oscar Wilde Quotes

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

Some cause happiness wherever they go others whenever they go.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

Morality, like art, means a drawing a line someplace.

Life imitates art more than art imitates life.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

Life is too important to be taken seriously.

Live the wonderful life that is in you.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

Work is the refuge of those who have nothing better to do.

There is no sin except stupidity.

One’s real life is often the life that one does not lead.

Who, being loved, is poor?

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Wisdom comes with winters.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not.