Quotes and aphorisms by Oscar Wilde:
“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing“.
Author: Oscar Wilde
Topic: Price, Value
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“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist“.
Author: Oscar Wilde
Topic: Art
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“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth“.
Author: Oscar Wilde
Topic: Truth, Human nature, Human Being
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“Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship“.
Author: Oscar Wilde
Topic: Men, Women, Friendship, Love
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“I can resist everything except temptation“.
Author: Oscar Wilde
Topic: Desire
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“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it“.
Author: Oscar Wilde
Topic: Desire
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“One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation“.
Author: Oscar Wilde
Topic: Death, Reputation
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“Ambition is the last refuge of the failure“.
Author: Oscar Wilde
Topic: Abmition, Failure
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“There is no sin except stupidity“.
Author: Oscar Wilde
Topic: Sin, Stupidity
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“The truth is rarely pure and never simple“.