Oscar Wilde Quotes

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular... view

By: Oscar Wilde

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between... view

By: Oscar Wilde

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same... view

By: Oscar Wilde

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure... view

By: Oscar Wilde

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world... view

By: Oscar Wilde

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train... view

By: Oscar Wilde

I put all my genius into my life.. view

By: Oscar Wilde

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being... view

By: Oscar Wilde

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything... view

By: Oscar Wilde

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability... view

By: Oscar Wilde

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy... view

By: Oscar Wilde

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability... view

By: Oscar Wilde

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship... view

By: Oscar Wilde

A true friend stabs you in the front... view

By: Oscar Wilde

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... view

By: Oscar Wilde

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally... view

By: Oscar Wilde

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal... view

By: Oscar Wilde

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her... view

By: Oscar Wilde

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies... view

By: Oscar Wilde

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all... view

By: Oscar Wilde

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction... view

By: Oscar Wilde

An excellent man.. view

By: Oscar Wilde

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it... view

By: Oscar Wilde

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing... view

By: Oscar Wilde

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament... view

By: Oscar Wilde

Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means... view

By: Oscar Wilde

Alas, I am dying beyond my means... view

By: Oscar Wilde

All art is quite useless... view

By: Oscar Wilde

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling... view

By: Oscar Wilde

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his... view

By: Oscar Wilde

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much... view

By: Oscar Wilde

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds... view

By: Oscar Wilde

A poet can survive everything but a misprint... view

By: Oscar Wilde

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason... view

By: Oscar Wilde

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection... view

By: 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... view

By: Oscar Wilde

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead... view

By: Oscar Wilde

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one... view

By: Oscar Wilde

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life... view

By: Oscar Wilde

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about... view

By: Oscar Wilde

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not... view

By: Oscar Wilde

It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned... view

By: Oscar Wilde