Oscar Wilde Quotes

My Favorite Oscar Wilde Quotes

• It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.
• A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
• A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.
• Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me. I always feel that I must be wrong.
• Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
• Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.
• Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
• It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.
• Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
• In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.