I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

Quote by Oscar Wilde

Topics: Egotism Quotes, Gossip Quotes, Self Awareness Quotes, Witty Quotes

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

I have met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.

I have met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.

Men of thoughts should have nothing to do with action

Men of thoughts should have nothing to do with action

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

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

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...

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own...

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own...

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry,...

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry,...

To get back to my youth I would do anything in the world, except take...

To get back to my youth I would do anything in the world, except take...

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had...

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had...

Art is the most intense mode of invidualism that the world has known.

Art is the most intense mode of invidualism that the world has known.

The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a...

The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a...

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,...

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,...

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their...

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their...

Forget your enemies. It's your friends you frustrate that cause all the problems.

Forget your enemies. It's your friends you frustrate that cause all the problems.

A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed.

A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed.