Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly.Oscar Wilde
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.Oscar Wilde
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is that things are what they are and will be what they will be.Oscar Wilde
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.Oscar Wilde
Relations are simply a tedious pack of people who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.Oscar Wilde
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.Oscar Wilde
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.Oscar Wilde
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read.Oscar Wilde
