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- The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- We're all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- In the world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III
- To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), "An Ideal Husband"
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