Oscar Wilde Quotes

* Familiarity breeds consent.
* Nothing succeeds like excess.
* It is better to be good looking than to be good
* I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.
* The reason we all like to thing so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
* Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
* Those whom the gods hate die old.
* Those whom the gods love die young.
* I never pull off till tomorrow what I can possibly do- the day after.
* I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws.
* Praise make me humble, but when I am abused I know I have touched the stars.
* I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
* I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time and prevents arguments.
* I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasure. i often have long conversations all by myself. and I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
* I am always thinking about myself, and I expect everybody else to do the same.
* If life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life.
* I love acting. It is so much more real than life (I totally agree with this one!!)
* The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
* One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.
* Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
* People are so fond of giving away what they do not want themselves, that charity is largely on the increase.
* The inherited stupidity of the race- sound English common sense.
*To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
* Nothing worth knowing can be taught.
* Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.


And the best one is:
* Somehow I'll be famous, and if I am not famous then I'll be notorious.

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