“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” — Oscar Wilde · Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892
“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.” — Oscar Wilde · The Happy Prince and Other Tales, 1888
“I'm always late on principle, my principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.” — Oscar Wilde · The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1890
“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
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” — Oscar Wilde · The Soul of Man Under Socialism, 1891
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” — Oscar Wilde · Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892
“The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.” — Oscar Wilde · Intentions, 1891