Quotes by Oscar Wilde

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Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III

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Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III

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

Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III

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

Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III

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Only the shallow know themselves.

Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young, 1882

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We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language. The Canterville Ghost, 1882

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But what is the difference between literature and journalism?...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.

The Critic as Artist, 1891

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It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

The Critic as Artist, 1891

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