Oscar Wilde Quotes

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable... view

By: Oscar Wilde

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess... view

By: Oscar Wilde

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth... view

By: Oscar Wilde

Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us... view

By: Oscar Wilde

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance... view

By: Oscar Wilde

Men marry because they are tired.. view

By: Oscar Wilde

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all... view

By: Oscar Wilde

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike... view

By: Oscar Wilde

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes... view

By: Oscar Wilde

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty... view

By: Oscar Wilde

Life is too important to be taken seriously... view

By: Oscar Wilde

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience... view

By: Oscar Wilde

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes... view

By: Oscar Wilde

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk... view

By: Oscar Wilde

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation... view

By: Oscar Wilde

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world... view

By: Oscar Wilde

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life... view

By: Oscar Wilde

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism... view

By: Oscar Wilde

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever... view

By: Oscar Wilde

In married life three is company and two none... view

By: Oscar Wilde

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin... view

By: Oscar Wilde

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information... view

By: Oscar Wilde

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious... view

By: Oscar Wilde

It is always the unreadable that occurs... view

By: Oscar Wilde

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly... view

By: Oscar Wilde

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating... view

By: Oscar Wilde

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art... view

By: Oscar Wilde

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized... view

By: Oscar Wilde

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane... view

By: Oscar Wilde