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
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