"I have put my genius into my life;
all I've put into my works is my talent."
-Oscar Wilde

"I played with an idea, and grew willful;
tossed it into the air; transformed it;
let it escaped and recaptured it;
made it iridescent with fancy,
and winged it with paradox."
-Oscar Wilde

"An idea that is not dangerous
is unworthy of being called an idea at all."
-Oscar Wilde

"In all pointed sentences
some degree of accuracy
must be sacrificed to conciseness."
-Oscar Wilde

"A thing is not necessarily true
because a man dies for it."
-Oscar Wilde

"I am not young enough to know everything."
-Oscar Wilde

"Consistency is the last refuge
of the unimaginative."
-Oscar Wilde

"America has been discovered before,
but it has always been hushed up."
-Oscar Wilde

"If you don't get everything you want,
think of the things you
don't get that you don't want."
-Oscar Wilde

"It is better to have a permanent income
than to be fascinating."
-Oscar Wilde

"The English country gentleman
galloping after a fox...
the unspeakable in full pursuit
of the uneatable."
-Oscar Wilde

"It is better to be beautiful than to be good.
But it is better to be good than to be ugly."
-Oscar Wilde

"A pessimist is one who, when he has
a choice of two evils, chooses both."
-Oscar Wilde

"Moderation is a fatal thing. . . .
Nothing succeeds like excess."
-Oscar Wilde

"The play was a great success,
but the audience was a disaster."
-Oscar Wilde

"Only the shallow know themselves."
-Oscar Wilde

"Morality is simply the attitude we adopt
towards people we personally dislike."
-Oscar Wilde

"The best one can say of modern creative art is
that it is just a little less vulgar than reality."
-Oscar Wilde

"Experience is one thing
you can't get for nothing."
-Oscar Wilde

"One should always play fairly
when one has the winning cards."
-Oscar Wilde