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“I don’t say we all ought to misbehave. But we ought to look as if we could”

“Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.”

“This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go.”

“I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do - the day after.”

“Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.”

“The basis of optimism is sheer terror.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.”

“Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Miss Prism, Act II
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)

“I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.”

Oscar Wilde An Ideal Husband

Lord Goring, Act I
Variant: The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
Source: An Ideal Husband (1895)

“Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.”

“One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.”

“Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.”

“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”

The Epigrams of Oscar Wilde, edited by Alvin Redman (1954)

“The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.”

Source: The Soul of Man Under Socialism, and Selected Critical Prose

“There is no sin except stupidity.”

Source: The Critic as Artist (1891), Part II

“Some things are more precious because they don't last long.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Everything in moderation, including moderation.”