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
Related authors
- Zakaria HBA
- mr-john
- Aaliyah
- Alvar Aalto
- Willie Aames
- Hank Aaron
- Frank Abagnale
- Mahmoud Abbas
- Cleveland Abbe
- Edward Abbey
- Lynn Abbey
- Berenice Abbott
- Bud Abbott
- Grace Abbott
- Jack Henry Abbott
- Lyman Abbott
- Abdallah II
- Paula Abdul
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
- King Abdullah II
- Hasan Al Basri
- Sam Abell
- John Abercrombie
- Lascelles Abercrombie
- Ralph Abernathy
- John Abizaid
- Edmond About
- F. Murray Abraham
- Spencer Abraham
- Jack Abramoff