Post by Elle Rush on Dec 1, 2005 21:01:53 GMT -5
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
Oscar Wilde
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar Wilde
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
Oscar Wilde
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
Oscar Wilde
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Oscar Wilde
A true friend stabs you in the front.
Oscar Wilde
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
Oscar Wilde
Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
Oscar Wilde
Alas, I am dying beyond my means.
Oscar Wilde
All art is quite useless.
Oscar Wilde
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
Oscar Wilde
All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
Oscar Wilde
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
Oscar Wilde
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
Oscar Wilde
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
Oscar Wilde
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Oscar Wilde
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
Oscar Wilde
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
Oscar Wilde
Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Oscar Wilde
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Oscar Wilde
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
Oscar Wilde
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.
Oscar Wilde
As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of his friends like him.
Oscar Wilde
At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.
Oscar Wilde
Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.
Oscar Wilde
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Oscar Wilde
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
Oscar Wilde
Biography lends to death a new terror.
Oscar Wilde
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
Oscar Wilde
Charity creates a multitude of sins.
Oscar Wilde
Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde
Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.
Oscar Wilde
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Oscar Wilde
Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative.
Oscar Wilde
Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Oscar Wilde
Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
Oscar Wilde
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
Oscar Wilde
Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
Oscar Wilde
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
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
Oscar Wilde
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde
Everything popular is wrong.
Oscar Wilde
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
Oscar Wilde
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Oscar Wilde
Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
Oscar Wilde
Hatred is blind, as well as love.
Oscar Wilde
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
Oscar Wilde
He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.
Oscar Wilde
He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
Oscar Wilde
He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.
Oscar Wilde
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
Oscar Wilde
How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
Oscar Wilde
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
I am not young enough to know everything.
Oscar Wilde
I can resist everything except temptation.
Oscar Wilde
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
I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
Oscar Wilde
I have nothing to declare except my genuis.
Oscar Wilde
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
Oscar Wilde
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
Oscar Wilde
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
Oscar Wilde
I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
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.
Oscar Wilde
I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
Oscar Wilde
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
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.
Oscar Wilde
I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
Oscar Wilde
I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.
Oscar Wilde
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
Oscar Wilde
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
Oscar Wilde
If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
Oscar Wilde
If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
Oscar Wilde
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
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.
Oscar Wilde
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
Oscar Wilde
In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
Oscar Wilde
In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.
Oscar Wilde
In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
Oscar Wilde
In England people actually try to be brilliant at breakfast. That is so dreadful of them! Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Oscar Wilde
In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust.
Oscar Wilde
In married life three is company and two none.
Oscar Wilde
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
Oscar Wilde
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Oscar Wilde
It is an odd thing, but every one who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and possess all the attractions of the next world.
Oscar Wilde
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
Oscar Wilde
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
Oscar Wilde
It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
Oscar Wilde
It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about, nowadays, saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.
Oscar Wilde
It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
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.
Oscar Wilde
Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
Oscar Wilde
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Oscar Wilde
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
Oscar Wilde
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
Oscar Wilde
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
Oscar Wilde
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
Oscar Wilde
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
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.
Oscar Wilde
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Oscar Wilde
Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
Oscar Wilde
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
Oscar Wilde
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
Oscar Wilde
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
Oscar Wilde
Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.
Oscar Wilde
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
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.
Oscar Wilde
Mrs. Allonby: No man does. That is his.
Oscar Wilde
Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.
Oscar Wilde
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
Oscar Wilde
My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.
Oscar Wilde
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
Oscar Wilde
No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
Oscar Wilde
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
Oscar Wilde
No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
Oscar Wilde
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
Oscar Wilde
Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
Oscar Wilde
Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.
Oscar Wilde
Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
Oscar Wilde
Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.
Oscar Wilde
Of course America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
Oscar Wilde
Of course I have played outdoor games. I once played dominoes in an open air cafe in Paris.
Oscar Wilde
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
Oscar Wilde
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
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
Oscar Wilde
One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
Oscar Wilde
One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
Oscar Wilde
Only the shallow know themselves.
Oscar Wilde
Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
Oscar Wilde
Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
Oscar Wilde
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar Wilde
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Oscar Wilde
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde
Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.
Oscar Wilde
Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.
Oscar Wilde
Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.
Oscar Wilde
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Oscar Wilde
Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
Oscar Wilde
She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.
Oscar Wilde
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Oscar Wilde
Some of these people need ten years of therapy -ten sentences of mine do not equal ten years of therapy.
Oscar Wilde
Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
Oscar Wilde
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar Wilde
The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
Oscar Wilde
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - The unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
Oscar Wilde
The General was essentially a man of peace, except of course in his domestic affairs.
Oscar Wilde
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
Oscar Wilde
The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
Oscar Wilde
The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.
Oscar Wilde
The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
Oscar Wilde
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
Oscar Wilde
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
Oscar Wilde
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
Oscar Wilde
The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.
Oscar Wilde
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
Oscar Wilde
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Oscar Wilde
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde
The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.
Oscar Wilde
The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.
Oscar Wilde
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Oscar Wilde
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
Oscar Wilde
The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
Oscar Wilde
The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
Oscar Wilde
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
Oscar Wilde
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
Oscar Wilde
There is no sin except stupidity.
Oscar Wilde
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
Oscar Wilde
There is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.
Oscar Wilde
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
There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.
Oscar Wilde
There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Oscar Wilde
These days man knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde
This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
Oscar Wilde
Those whom the gods love grow young.
Oscar Wilde
To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
Oscar Wilde
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
Oscar Wilde
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Oscar Wilde
To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.
Oscar Wilde
True friends stab you in the front.
Oscar Wilde
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde
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
When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
Oscar Wilde
When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
Oscar Wilde
When good Americans die they go to Paris.
Oscar Wilde
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
When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
Oscar Wilde
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Oscar Wilde
Who, being loved, is poor?
Oscar Wilde
Why was I born with such contemporaries?
Oscar Wilde
Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
Oscar Wilde
Women are made to be loved, not understood.
Oscar Wilde
Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
Oscar Wilde
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
Oscar Wilde
Yet each man kills the thing he loves, by each let this be heard, some do it with a bitter look, some with a flattering word. The coward does it with a kiss, the brave man with a sword!
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
Oscar Wilde
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar Wilde
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
Oscar Wilde
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
Oscar Wilde
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Oscar Wilde
A true friend stabs you in the front.
Oscar Wilde
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
Oscar Wilde
Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
Oscar Wilde
Alas, I am dying beyond my means.
Oscar Wilde
All art is quite useless.
Oscar Wilde
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
Oscar Wilde
All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
Oscar Wilde
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
Oscar Wilde
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
Oscar Wilde
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
Oscar Wilde
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Oscar Wilde
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
Oscar Wilde
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
Oscar Wilde
Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Oscar Wilde
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Oscar Wilde
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
Oscar Wilde
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.
Oscar Wilde
As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of his friends like him.
Oscar Wilde
At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.
Oscar Wilde
Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.
Oscar Wilde
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Oscar Wilde
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
Oscar Wilde
Biography lends to death a new terror.
Oscar Wilde
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
Oscar Wilde
Charity creates a multitude of sins.
Oscar Wilde
Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde
Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.
Oscar Wilde
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Oscar Wilde
Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative.
Oscar Wilde
Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Oscar Wilde
Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
Oscar Wilde
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
Oscar Wilde
Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
Oscar Wilde
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
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
Oscar Wilde
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde
Everything popular is wrong.
Oscar Wilde
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
Oscar Wilde
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Oscar Wilde
Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
Oscar Wilde
Hatred is blind, as well as love.
Oscar Wilde
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
Oscar Wilde
He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.
Oscar Wilde
He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
Oscar Wilde
He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.
Oscar Wilde
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
Oscar Wilde
How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
Oscar Wilde
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
I am not young enough to know everything.
Oscar Wilde
I can resist everything except temptation.
Oscar Wilde
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
I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
Oscar Wilde
I have nothing to declare except my genuis.
Oscar Wilde
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
Oscar Wilde
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
Oscar Wilde
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
Oscar Wilde
I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
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.
Oscar Wilde
I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
Oscar Wilde
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
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.
Oscar Wilde
I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
Oscar Wilde
I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.
Oscar Wilde
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
Oscar Wilde
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
Oscar Wilde
If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
Oscar Wilde
If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
Oscar Wilde
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
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.
Oscar Wilde
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
Oscar Wilde
In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
Oscar Wilde
In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.
Oscar Wilde
In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
Oscar Wilde
In England people actually try to be brilliant at breakfast. That is so dreadful of them! Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Oscar Wilde
In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust.
Oscar Wilde
In married life three is company and two none.
Oscar Wilde
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
Oscar Wilde
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Oscar Wilde
It is an odd thing, but every one who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and possess all the attractions of the next world.
Oscar Wilde
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
Oscar Wilde
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
Oscar Wilde
It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
Oscar Wilde
It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about, nowadays, saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.
Oscar Wilde
It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
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.
Oscar Wilde
Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
Oscar Wilde
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Oscar Wilde
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
Oscar Wilde
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
Oscar Wilde
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
Oscar Wilde
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
Oscar Wilde
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
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.
Oscar Wilde
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Oscar Wilde
Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
Oscar Wilde
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
Oscar Wilde
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
Oscar Wilde
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
Oscar Wilde
Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.
Oscar Wilde
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
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.
Oscar Wilde
Mrs. Allonby: No man does. That is his.
Oscar Wilde
Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.
Oscar Wilde
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
Oscar Wilde
My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.
Oscar Wilde
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
Oscar Wilde
No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
Oscar Wilde
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
Oscar Wilde
No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
Oscar Wilde
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
Oscar Wilde
Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
Oscar Wilde
Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.
Oscar Wilde
Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
Oscar Wilde
Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.
Oscar Wilde
Of course America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
Oscar Wilde
Of course I have played outdoor games. I once played dominoes in an open air cafe in Paris.
Oscar Wilde
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
Oscar Wilde
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
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
Oscar Wilde
One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
Oscar Wilde
One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
Oscar Wilde
Only the shallow know themselves.
Oscar Wilde
Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
Oscar Wilde
Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
Oscar Wilde
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar Wilde
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Oscar Wilde
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde
Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.
Oscar Wilde
Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.
Oscar Wilde
Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.
Oscar Wilde
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Oscar Wilde
Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
Oscar Wilde
She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.
Oscar Wilde
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Oscar Wilde
Some of these people need ten years of therapy -ten sentences of mine do not equal ten years of therapy.
Oscar Wilde
Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
Oscar Wilde
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar Wilde
The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
Oscar Wilde
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - The unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
Oscar Wilde
The General was essentially a man of peace, except of course in his domestic affairs.
Oscar Wilde
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
Oscar Wilde
The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
Oscar Wilde
The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.
Oscar Wilde
The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
Oscar Wilde
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
Oscar Wilde
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
Oscar Wilde
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
Oscar Wilde
The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.
Oscar Wilde
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
Oscar Wilde
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Oscar Wilde
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde
The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.
Oscar Wilde
The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.
Oscar Wilde
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Oscar Wilde
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
Oscar Wilde
The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
Oscar Wilde
The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
Oscar Wilde
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
Oscar Wilde
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
Oscar Wilde
There is no sin except stupidity.
Oscar Wilde
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
Oscar Wilde
There is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.
Oscar Wilde
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
There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.
Oscar Wilde
There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Oscar Wilde
These days man knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde
This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
Oscar Wilde
Those whom the gods love grow young.
Oscar Wilde
To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
Oscar Wilde
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
Oscar Wilde
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Oscar Wilde
To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.
Oscar Wilde
True friends stab you in the front.
Oscar Wilde
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde
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
When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
Oscar Wilde
When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
Oscar Wilde
When good Americans die they go to Paris.
Oscar Wilde
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
When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
Oscar Wilde
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Oscar Wilde
Who, being loved, is poor?
Oscar Wilde
Why was I born with such contemporaries?
Oscar Wilde
Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
Oscar Wilde
Women are made to be loved, not understood.
Oscar Wilde
Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
Oscar Wilde
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
Oscar Wilde
Yet each man kills the thing he loves, by each let this be heard, some do it with a bitter look, some with a flattering word. The coward does it with a kiss, the brave man with a sword!
Oscar Wilde