Quotes by Oscar Wilde

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

All art is quite useless.