I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

Quote by Oscar Wilde

Topics: Egotism Quotes, Witty Quotes

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

Anybody can be good in the country

Anybody can be good in the country

Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always...

Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always...

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way...

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way...

The only real people are the people who never existed

The only real people are the people who never existed

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else...

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else...

In the wild struggle for existance, we want to have something that endures, and so...

In the wild struggle for existance, we want to have something that endures, and so...

It is always the unreadable that occurs.

It is always the unreadable that occurs.

Nature is always behind the age.

Nature is always behind the age.

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend...

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend...

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every...

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every...

You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you...

You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you...

A man cannot reason with the woman he loves: he cares about her too much.

A man cannot reason with the woman he loves: he cares about her too much.

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation...

Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation...

Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing

Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing

Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive,...

Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive,...

Convincing yourself doesn't win an argument.

Convincing yourself doesn't win an argument.