Smiles: Quotes by Oscar Wilde

Smiling is healing and feels great.

Every time I read these quotes I have a great time. I hope they'll make you smile too. Have fun!


"I think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability."

"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."

"To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness."

"I always like to know everything about my new friends and nothing about my old ones."

"Why was I born with such contemporaries?"

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

"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong."

"A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal is absolutely fatal."

"We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language."

"Always forgive your enemies, nothing annoys them so much."

"Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them."

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

"Anyone who lives within their means, suffers from a lack of imagination."

"My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's."

"We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow."

"Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that every day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event."

"I can resist anything but temptation."

"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes."

"Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality."

"Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success."

"A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."

"One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing."

"To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early or be respectable."

"Hell is full of musical amateurs."

"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will."

"You see things and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'"

"Beware of the man whose God is in the skies."

"Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get."

"An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable."

"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it."

"England and America are two countries separated by a common language."

"You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live."

"Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week."