The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
Oscar Wilde

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
Oscar Wilde

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
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 infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.
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 sin except stupidity.
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 nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.
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 only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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

There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
Oscar Wilde

These days man knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde