Quotes by Oscar Wilde

"A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies."

"I am not young enough to know everything."

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

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."

"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance"

"A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction."

"Anything worth knowing can never be taught."

"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."

"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes."

"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies."

"I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works."

"In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience."

"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious."

"Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."

"The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates."

"The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything."

"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."

"The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are."

"The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius."

"There is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that."

"To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's life. It is no less than a denial of the soul."