Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. - Oscar Wilde
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. - Oscar Wilde
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. - Oscar Wilde
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up. - Oscar Wilde
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. - Oscar Wilde
There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us. - Oscar Wilde
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. - Oscar Wilde
There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else. - Oscar Wilde
There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better. - Oscar Wilde
Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes. - Oscar Wilde
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