Oscar Wilde Quotes

Those whom the gods love grow young... view

By: Oscar Wilde

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect... view

By: Oscar Wilde

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune.. view

By: Oscar Wilde

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else... view

By: Oscar Wilde

True friends stab you in the front... view

By: Oscar Wilde

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose... view

By: Oscar Wilde

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing... view

By: Oscar Wilde

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying... view

By: Oscar Wilde

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her... view

By: Oscar Wilde

When good Americans die they go to Paris... view

By: Oscar Wilde

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life.. view

By: Oscar Wilde

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers... view

By: Oscar Wilde

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all... view

By: Oscar Wilde

No man is rich enough to buy back his past... view

By: Oscar Wilde

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance... view

By: Oscar Wilde

The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable... view

By: Oscar Wilde

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius... view

By: Oscar Wilde

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple... view

By: Oscar Wilde

The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it... view

By: Oscar Wilde

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible... view

By: Oscar Wilde

The truth is rarely pure and never simple... view

By: Oscar Wilde

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation... view

By: Oscar Wilde

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves... view

By: Oscar Wilde

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about... view

By: Oscar Wilde

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast... view

By: Oscar Wilde

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation... view

By: Oscar Wilde

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up... view

By: Oscar Wilde

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing... view

By: Oscar Wilde

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us... view

By: Oscar Wilde

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love... view

By: Oscar Wilde

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob.. view

By: Oscar Wilde

There is no sin except stupidity... view

By: Oscar Wilde

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written... view

By: Oscar Wilde

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about... view

By: Oscar Wilde

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life... view

By: Oscar Wilde

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best... view

By: Oscar Wilde

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead... view

By: Oscar Wilde

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion... view

By: Oscar Wilde

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there... view

By: Oscar Wilde

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist... view

By: Oscar Wilde

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known... view

By: Oscar Wilde

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied... view

By: Oscar Wilde