Oscar Wilde

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
― Oscar Wilde

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
― Oscar Wilde

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
― Oscar Wilde

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
― Oscar Wilde

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
― Oscar Wilde

Yes: I am a dreamer. For 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.
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
― Oscar Wilde