Oscar Wilde Witty Quotes About Society

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

I can resist everything except temptation.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.

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

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

I am not young enough to know everything.

True friends stab you in the front.

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

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

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

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

Everything popular is wrong.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

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

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.