Creative Quotations from Oscar Wilde (1856-1900)

Creative Quotations from . . .

Oscar Wilde
(1856-1900) born on Oct 16

Anglo-Irish playwright, novelist. He was noted for his flamboyant witty, sophisticated plays, e.g., "The Importance of Being Ernest," 1895.

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It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?

Simple pleasures . . . are the last refuge of the complex.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.

Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality.

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	Gilbert, in "The Critic as Artist," pt. 1 (published in Intentions, 1891).
R:	Gilbert, in "The Critic as Artist," pt. 2 (published in Intentions, 1891).
A:	A Woman of No Importance, 1893
N:	'Lady Windermere's Fan'
K:	Cecil Graham, in "Lady Windermere's Fan," act 3.