The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. - 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
The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it. - Oscar Wilde
The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal. - Oscar Wilde
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation. - Oscar Wilde
The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable. - 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 kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing. - 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 always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love. - Oscar Wilde
There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad. - 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 nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about. - 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