Get the Quote of the Day from Oscar Wilde
I am not young enough to know everything.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back in again.
The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.
It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearance.
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
What is said of a man is nothing. The point is, who says it.
To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.
He was a hero to his valet, who bullied him, and a terror to most of his relations, whom he bullied in turn. Only England could have produced him, and he always said that the country was going to the dogs. His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.
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