It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly. – Oscar Wilde
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. – Oscar Wilde
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not. – Oscar Wilde
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
I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability. – Oscar Wilde
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future. – Oscar Wilde
True friends stab you in the front. – Oscar Wilde
An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him. – Oscar Wilde
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends. – Oscar Wilde
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. – Oscar Wilde
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. – Oscar Wilde
Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much. – Oscar Wilde
I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead. – Oscar Wilde
Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life. – Oscar Wilde
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure. – Oscar Wilde
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. – Oscar Wilde
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away. – Oscar Wilde
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. – Oscar Wilde
Biography lends to death a new terror. – Oscar Wilde
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. – Oscar Wilde
