“The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.”
Oscar Wilde · Intentions, 1891
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“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
Oscar Wilde · An Ideal Husband, 1895
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
Oscar Wilde · The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895
“A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.”
Oscar Wilde · Intentions, 1891
“The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.”
Oscar Wilde · Intentions, 1891
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
Oscar Wilde · The Soul of Man Under Socialism, 1891
“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.”
Oscar Wilde · Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892
“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
Oscar Wilde · The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1890
“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
Oscar Wilde · Intentions, 1891
“The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her, if she is pretty, and to someone else, if she is plain.”
Oscar Wilde · The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895
“A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.”
Oscar Wilde · The Soul of Man Under Socialism, 1891
“With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?”
Oscar Wilde · attributed, widely documented
