Oscar Wilde
Irish playwright and writer, 1854-1900
13 quotes.
Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- 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.
- Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature — it requires, in fact, the nature of a true Individualist — to sympathise with a friend's success.
- Be yourself. Everyone else is taken.
- Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
- Experience, the name men give to their mistakes.
- 'Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.
- Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
- Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
- Scepticism is the beginning of faith.
- Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
- To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
- We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.