“No good deed goes unpunished.”

-Oscar Wilde

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

-Oscar Wilde

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

-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

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

-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

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

-Oscar Wilde

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

-Oscar Wilde

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

-Oscar Wilde

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

-Oscar Wilde

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

-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

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

-Oscar Wilde

“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.”

-Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854 – 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He also wrote the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray.

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

-Oscar Wilde

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

-Oscar Wilde

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

-Oscar Wilde