20 Entertaining Thoughts from Oscar Wilde

“A good friend will always stab you in the front.”

-Oscar Wilde

“A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.”

-Oscar Wilde

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”

-Oscar Wilde

“A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.”

-Oscar Wilde

“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”

-Oscar Wilde

“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”

-Oscar Wilde

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

-Oscar Wilde

“Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.”

-Oscar Wilde

“I like men who have a future and women who have a past.”

-Oscar Wilde

“I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”

-Oscar Wilde

“No good deed goes unpunished.”

-Oscar Wilde

“The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s heart to stone.”

-Oscar Wilde

“The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.”

-Oscar Wilde

“There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.”

-Oscar Wilde

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”

-Oscar Wilde

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”

-Oscar Wilde

“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”

-Oscar Wilde

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”

-Oscar Wilde

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”

-Oscar Wilde