Quotes from Oscar Wilde

An ordinary man away from home giving advice.

It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly deceived

I sometimes think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability

Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword

One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.

Some things are more precious because they don't last long.

The heart was made to be broken.

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

The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything: the young know everything.

Friendship is far more tragic than love, it lasts longer.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.

An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

True friends stab you in the front.

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

If there is anything in the world more annoying than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.

Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.