A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
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Alas, I am dying beyond my means.
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All art is quite useless.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.
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All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
Biography lends to death a new terror.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
Charity creates a multitude of sins.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
Everything popular is wrong.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
Hatred is blind, as well as love.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
I am not young enough to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
I can resist everything except temptation.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
I have nothing to declare except my genuis.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
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.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
It is always the unreadable that occurs.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
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It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
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.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
One can survive anything these days, except death, and live down anything except a good reputation.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
Only the shallow know themselves.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
There is no sin except stupidity.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
These days man knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
Those whom the gods love grow young.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
True friends stab you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
When good Americans die they go to Paris.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
Who, being loved, is poor?
- Oscar Wilde Quote
Why was I born with such contemporaries?
- Oscar Wilde Quote
Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
Women are made to be loved, not understood.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the two sexes.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
- Oscar Wilde Quote
