Quotes by Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde wrote the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) and the comedy The Importance of Being Earnest (1895). Convicted of gross indecency in 1895, he served two years in prison and died in Paris in 1900. Many one-liners circulate under his name that he never wrote, so every entry here names its source.
I can resist everything except temptation.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.