Oscar Wilde Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”

“To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.”

“Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”

“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”

“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.”

“Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.”

“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.”

“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.”