Oscar Wilde Quotes (126+)

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know that it is.

Only the shallow know themselves.

There is no sin except stupidity.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible and those who do the improbable.

Genius is born—not paid.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects.

The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.