Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

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.

By : Oscar Wilde

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

By : Oscar Wilde

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

By : Oscar Wilde

Society exists only as a mental concept

By : Oscar Wilde

Men marry because they are tired

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.

By : Oscar Wilde

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

By : Oscar Wilde

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

By : Oscar Wilde

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

By : Oscar Wilde

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

By : Oscar Wilde

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

By : Oscar Wilde

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

By : Oscar Wilde