Quotes by Oscar Wilde

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than...

#Principles, #Witty

All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art...

#Principles

Simple pleasures are always the last refuge of the complex

#Pleasure

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

#Illusions, #Pleasure

It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been...

#Change, #Humanity, #Inspiration

There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other...

#Poetry

Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.

#Popularity

Everything popular is wrong.

#Popularity

Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is...

#Popularity

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use...

#Reading

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the...

#Realism

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask,...

#Reality, #Self Awareness, #Truth