Quotes by Oscar Wilde

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like...

#Oscar Wilde

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

#Oscar Wilde

Nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude

#Apologies

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

#Appreciation, #Jobs, #Work

I sometimes think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability

#Appreciation, #God, #Man

The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly deceived

#Appreciation

I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.

#Arguments, #Witty

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

#Arguments

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

#Arguments

Authority is quite degrading

#Authority

I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.

#Sympathy

Biography lends to death a new terror.

#Biography, #Death