A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. -- Oscar Wilde -- A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally. -- Oscar Wilde A kiss may ruin a human life. -- Oscar Wilde -- A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. -- Oscar Wilde -- A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her. -- Oscar Wilde -- A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. -- Oscar Wilde -- A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. -- Oscar Wilde -- A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction. -- Oscar Wilde -- A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life. -- Oscar Wilde -- A poet can survive everything but a misprint. -- Oscar Wilde -- A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection. -- 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 virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it. -- Oscar Wilde -- A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. -- Oscar Wilde -- Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream. -- Oscar Wilde -- After all, what is fashion? From the artistic point of view it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to change it every six months! Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means. -- Oscar Wilde -- Alas, I am dying beyond my means. (sipping champagne on his deathbed) -- Oscar Wilde -- All art is quite useless. -- Oscar Wilde -- All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. -- Oscar Wilde -- All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic. -- 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 excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him. -- Oscar Wilde -- An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. -- Oscar Wilde -- An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young. -- Oscar Wilde -- Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there. -- Oscar Wilde -- Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success. -- 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 fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. -- 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 -- At twilight nature becomes a wonderfully suggestive aspect, and is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets. -- Oscar Wilde -- Bernard Shaw has no enemies but is intensely disliked by his friends. -- 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 -- Caricature is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius. -- 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 -- Clever people never listen, and stupid people never talk. -- Oscar Wilde -- Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. -- Oscar Wilde -- Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative. -- Oscar Wilde -- Crime in England is rarely the result of sin. It is nearly always the result of starvation. -- Oscar Wilde -- Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones. -- Oscar Wilde -- Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away. -- 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 effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular, one must be a mediocrity. -- Oscar Wilde -- Every great man nowadays has his disciple, and it is always Judas who writes the biography. -- Oscar Wilde -- Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth. -- 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 -- Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching. -- 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 -- Experience is the name everyone gives to their 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 -- Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but it is hardly suitable for delicate boys. -- Oscar Wilde -- From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it. -- Oscar Wilde -- Genius is born, not paid. -- Oscar Wilde -- God and other artists are always a little obscure. -- 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 realize. -- 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 like the great Sappho with urchins who have the eyes of lesbians. -- Oscar Wilde -- I am not young enough to know everything. -- Oscar Wilde -- I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. -- Oscar Wilde -- I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly. -- Oscar Wilde -- I can believe anything provided that it is quite incredible. -- Oscar Wilde -- I can resist everything except temptation. -- Oscar Wilde -- 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 -- 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 genius. -- 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 like Wagner's music better than any other music. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without hearing what one says. That is a great advantage. -- Oscar Wilde -- I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world. -- Oscar Wilde -- I love acting. It is so much more real than life. -- 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 shall never make a new friend in my life, though perhaps a few after I die. -- 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 I do live again I would like to be as a flower - no soul but perfectly beautiful. Perhaps for my sins I shall be made a red geranium! If another century began and I was still alive, it would really be more than the English could stand. -- 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 hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation. -- Oscar Wilde -- If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk. -- 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 -- Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is. -- Oscar Wilde -- In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs f 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 all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane. -- 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 -- In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin. -- Oscar Wilde -- It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless i information. -- Oscar Wilde -- It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. -- Oscar Wilde -- It is always the unreadable that occurs. -- 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 only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes. -- Oscar Wilde -- It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live on in the memory of the commercial classes. -- Oscar Wilde -- It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned. -- Oscar Wilde -- It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out. - Oscar Wilde It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes. -- 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 realize our perfection. -- Oscar Wilde -- It is to be regretted that a portion of our community should be practically in slavery, but to propose to solve the problem by enslaving the entire community is childish. -- 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 -- 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 a dream that prevents one from sleeping. -- 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 tit is not. -- Oscar Wilde -- Life is too important to be taken seriously. -- Oscar Wilde -- Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but molds it to its purpose. The nineteenth century, as we know it, is largely an invention of Balzac. -- Oscar Wilde -- Lord Illingworth: All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. Mrs. Allonby: No man does. That is his. -- Oscar Wilde -- Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two. -- Oscar Wilde -- Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable. -- 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 -- Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. Women have a more subtle instinct about things. What they want to be is a man's last romance! Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man's last romance. -- Oscar Wilde -- Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed. -- Oscar Wilde -- Missionaries are the divinely provided food for destitute and underfed cannibals. Whenever they are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a nice plump missionary. -- 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 -- Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty. -- 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 experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all. -- 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 -- My poor brother writes to me that he is defending me all over London. My poor dear brother, he could compromise a steamroller. -- Oscar Wilde -- Nature is a kind of trick played on art. -- Oscar Wilde -- No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did he would cease to be an artist. -- Oscar Wilde -- o 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 is so dangerous as being too modern. One is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly. -- 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 -- Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. -- Oscar Wilde -- Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men. - 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 -- On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure. -- Oscar Wilde -- One can survive anything these days, except death, and live down anything except a good reputation. -- 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 should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art. -- Oscar Wilde -- One should never make one's debut with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age. -- Oscar Wilde -- One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed. -- Oscar Wilde -- One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged. -- Oscar Wilde -- One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead. -- Oscar Wilde -- One's real life is the life one never leads. -- 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 -- Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands. -- Oscar Wilde -- Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best. -- Oscar Wilde -- Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong. -- Oscar Wilde -- Prayer must never be answered; if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes a correspondence. -- Oscar Wilde -- Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are. -- Oscar Wilde -- Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit. -- Oscar Wilde -- Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities. -- Oscar Wilde -- Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. -- 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 lacks the indefinable charm of weakness. -- 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 -- Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals. -- Oscar Wilde -- Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer. -- Oscar Wilde -- Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer. -- Oscar Wilde -- Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. -- Oscar Wilde -- Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result. -- Oscar Wilde -- Suicide is the greatest compliment that one can pay to society. -- 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 advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray. -- Oscar Wilde -- The basis of optimism is sheer terror. -- Oscar Wilde -- The best that one can say of most creative modern art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality. -- Oscar Wilde -- The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. -- Oscar Wilde -- The clever people never listen, and the stupid people never talk. -- Oscar Wilde -- The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth. -- Oscar Wilde -- The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic. -- 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 fact of a man being a poisoner is nothing against his prose. -- Oscar Wilde -- The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means. -- Oscar Wilde -- The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits. -- Oscar Wilde -- The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes. -- Oscar Wilde -- The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates. -- Oscar Wilde -- The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all. -- 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, theyoung know everything. -- Oscar Wilde -- The one advantage of playing with fire is that one never gets even singed. It is the people who don't know how to play with it who get burned up. -- Oscar Wilde -- The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties. -- Oscar Wilde -- The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it. -- Oscar Wilde -- The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. -- Oscar Wilde -- The only form of lying that is absolutely beyond reproach is lying for its own sake. -- 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 behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty and to someone else if she is plain. -- Oscar Wilde -- The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. -- Oscar Wilde -- The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation. -- Oscar Wilde -- The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. -- Oscar Wilde -- The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. -- Oscar Wilde -- The public will forgive anything 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 stability of society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence among its members. -- Oscar Wilde -- The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is not young. -- Oscar Wilde -- The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes, and he annexes everything. -- 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 value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. -- Oscar Wilde -- The value of the telephone is the value of what two people have to say to each other. -- Oscar Wilde -- The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves. -- Oscar Wilde -- The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life. -- Oscar Wilde -- The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast. -- Oscar Wilde -- The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible,and those who do the improbable. -- Oscar Wilde -- The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts. -- Oscar Wilde -- The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic. -- Oscar Wilde -- The worst vice of the fanatic is sincerity. -- Oscar Wilde -- There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up. -- Oscar Wilde -- There are many things we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up. -- 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 a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us. -- Oscar Wilde -- There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies. -- Oscar Wilde -- There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love. -- Oscar Wilde -- There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad. -- 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 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 -- 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 -- There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. -- Oscar Wilde -- There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathize with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better. -- Oscar Wilde -- There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about. -- Oscar Wilde -- These days man knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing. -- Oscar Wilde -- They do not sin at all who sin for love. -- Oscar Wilde -- They say that when good Americans die, they go to Paris. I would add that when bad Americans die, they stay in America. -- Oscar Wilde -- This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last. -- Oscar Wilde -- Those whom the gods love grow young. -- Oscar Wilde -- To be good, according to the vulgar standards of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability… To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die. -- Oscar Wilde -- To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect. -- Oscar Wilde -- To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture. -- Oscar Wilde -- To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you. -- Oscar Wilde -- To know everything about oneself, one must know everything about others. -- Oscar Wilde -- To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist - that is all. -- Oscar Wilde -- To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both lookalike carelessness. -- Oscar Wilde -- To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. -- Oscar Wilde -- To win back my youth there is nothing I would not do - nothing - except take exercise, get up early, or be a useful member of the community. -- Oscar Wilde -- True friends stab you in the front. -- Oscar Wilde -- We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks. -- Oscar Wilde -- We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. -- Oscar Wilde -- What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. -- 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 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 a man has once loved a woman, he will do anything for her, except continue to love her. -- Oscar Wilde -- When good Americans die they go to Paris. -- Oscar Wilde -- When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. -- Oscar Wilde -- When the gods choose to punish us, they merely answer our prayers. -- Oscar Wilde -- When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers. -- Oscar Wilde -- When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy. -- Oscar Wilde -- Whenever I think of my bad qualities at night, I go to sleep at once. -- Oscar Wilde -- Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives. -- Oscar Wilde -- Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. -- Oscar Wilde -- While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance. -- Oscar Wilde -- Who, being loved, is poor? -- Oscar Wilde -- Why was I born with such contemporaries? -- Oscar Wilde -- Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others. -- 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 -- Women have a much better time than men in this world: there are far more things forbidden to them! Women have been so highly educated that nothing should surprise them except happy marriages. -- Oscar Wilde -- Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects. -- Oscar Wilde -- Work is the curse of the drinking classes. -- Oscar Wilde --Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity. -- Oscar Wilde -- You will care much less about what people think about you when you realize how seldom they do. -- Oscar Wilde -- Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot. -- Oscar Wilde -- A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it. -- Oscar Wilde -- Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly. -- Oscar Wilde -- Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms. -- Oscar Wilde --