Poems & Quotes

Quotes by Oscar Wilde

-"I think it's very healthy to spend time alone.You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person."

-"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead."

-"Women are made to be loved, not understood."

-"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."

-"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."

-"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."

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

-"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."

-"I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best."

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

-"Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals."

-"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist."

-"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."

-"True friends stab you in the front."

-"Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us."

-"If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism."

-"Always forgive your enemies -nothing annoys them so much."

-"A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally."

-"Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more."