More quotes by Oscar Wilde

"What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise"
"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."
"If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame."
"The English novels are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed. But one should not be too severe on them. They show a want of knowledge that must be the result of years of study."
"True friends stab you in the front."