Oscar Wilde

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

When good Americans die they go to Paris.

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

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

If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn’t. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

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