Oscar Wilde quotes

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

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

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Art is the most intense mode of Individualism that the world has known.