The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope. When the Verities become acrobats we can judge them.
By Oscar Wilde
The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
By Oscar Wilde
The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.
By Oscar Wilde
The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.
By Oscar Wilde
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
By Oscar Wilde
The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
By Oscar Wilde
The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
By Oscar Wilde
The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
By Oscar Wilde
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
By Oscar Wilde
A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
By Oscar Wilde
To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.
By Oscar Wilde
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
By Oscar Wilde
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
By Oscar Wilde
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
By Oscar Wilde
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
By Oscar Wilde
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
By Oscar Wilde
There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
By Oscar Wilde
People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.
By Oscar Wilde
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
By Oscar Wilde
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
By Oscar Wilde
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
By Oscar Wilde
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
By Oscar Wilde
One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
By Oscar Wilde
We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.
By Oscar Wilde
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
By Oscar Wilde
I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
By Oscar Wilde
I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
By Oscar Wilde
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
By Oscar Wilde
