Oscar Wilde: Trending quotes (page 31)

“There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.”

“Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive”

“I never change, except in my affections.”

“Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.”

“nothing that is worth knowing can be taught”

“You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see life; you are the incarnation of all lovely things… I think of you day and night. ~ Letter to Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas”

“My own business always bores me to death. I prefer other people's.”

“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.”

“Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.”

“I have no objection to anyone’s sex life as long as they don’t practice it in the street and frighten the horses.”

“A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.”

“Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.”

“They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.”

“In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.”

“I love talking about nothing, father. It is the only thing I know anything about.”

“Hearts Live By Being Wounded”

“Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.”

“Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”

“The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.”