Top 179 Quotes by Oscar Wilde

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

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.

Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

When good Americans die they go to Paris.

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination.