Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months... view
By: Oscar Wilde
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future... view
By: Oscar Wilde
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching... view
By: Oscar Wilde
Everything popular is wrong... view
By: Oscar Wilde
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself... view
By: Oscar Wilde
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes... view
By: Oscar Wilde
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends... view
By: Oscar Wilde
Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life... view
By: Oscar Wilde
Hatred is blind, as well as love... view
By: Oscar Wilde
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter... view
By: Oscar Wilde
How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive... view
By: Oscar Wilde
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative... view
By: Oscar Wilde
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being... view
By: Oscar Wilde
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing... view
By: Oscar Wilde
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community... view
By: Oscar Wilde
I have nothing to declare except my genuis... view
By: Oscar Wilde
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies... view
By: Oscar Wilde
I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect... view
By: Oscar Wilde
I can resist everything except temptation... view
By: Oscar Wilde
I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly... view
By: Oscar Wilde
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away... view
By: Oscar Wilde
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying... view
By: Oscar Wilde
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught... view
By: Oscar Wilde
Charity creates a multitude of sins... view
By: Oscar Wilde
Children begin by loving their parents.. view
By: Oscar Wilde
Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative... view
By: Oscar Wilde
Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance... view
By: Oscar Wilde
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people... view
By: Oscar Wilde
Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to... view
By: Oscar Wilde
Biography lends to death a new terror... view
By: Oscar Wilde
Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat... view
By: Oscar Wilde
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives... view
By: Oscar Wilde
Women are made to be loved, not understood... view
By: Oscar Wilde
Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes... view
By: Oscar Wilde
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects... view
By: Oscar Wilde
Work is the curse of the drinking classes... view
By: Oscar Wilde
Who, being loved, is poor?.. view
By: Oscar Wilde
While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance... view
By: Oscar Wilde
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong... view
By: Oscar Wilde
Why was I born with such contemporaries?.. view
By: Oscar Wilde
Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow... view
By: Oscar Wilde
The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates... view
By: Oscar Wilde
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