Oscar Wilde Quotes

With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.

Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

She is a peacock in everything but beauty!

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight For the greatest tragedy of them all Is never to feel the burning light.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.

Simple pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world.

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

The English country-gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city.

If you cannot prove a man wrong, don't panic. You can always call him names.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

I can resist everything except temptation.

I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one.

If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.

Don't use big words. They mean so little.

An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

My wish isn't to mean everything to everyone but something to someone.

I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

Cats are put on earth to remind us that not everything has a purpose.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

To define is to limit.

The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it.

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

Life is too short to learn German

Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.

I have a simple taste, only the best.

A grapefruit is just a lemon that saw an opportunity and took advantage of it.

Art only begins where Imitation ends.