Oscar Wilde Quote

“I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws.” — Oscar Wilde Source: De Profundis, an 1897 letter to Lord Alfred Douglas written in Reading Gaol

Oscar Wilde Quote

“To ask whether Individualism is practical is like asking whether Evolution is practical. Evolution is the law of life, and there is no evolution except towards Individualism.”  — Oscar Wilde Source: 1891 essay The Soul of Man under Socialism

Oscar Wilde Quote

“One should always be a little improbable.”  — Oscar Wilde Source: essay Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young, first published in the Oxford student magazine The Chameleon, December 1894