Sunday, August 2, 2009

Quotes by Oscar Wilde

The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.
- Oscar Wilde
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
(A country where) the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
- Oscar Wilde
Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.
- Oscar Wilde
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
- Oscar Wilde
At every single moment of one's life, one is going to be no less than what one has been.
- Oscar Wilde
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
- Oscar Wilde
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
- Oscar Wilde
If England treats her criminals the way she has treated me, she doesn't deserve to have any.
- Oscar Wilde
When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself.
- Oscar Wilde

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