I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

- Oscar Wilde

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

- Oscar Wilde

Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

- Oscar Wilde

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

- Oscar Wilde

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

- Oscar Wilde

Those whom the gods love grow young.

- Oscar Wilde

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

- Oscar Wilde

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Oscar Wilde

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

- Oscar Wilde

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

- Oscar Wilde

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

- Oscar Wilde

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Oscar Wilde

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

- Oscar Wilde

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

- Oscar Wilde

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Oscar Wilde

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

- Oscar Wilde