Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde: We are all...

Oscar Wilde: We are all...

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Source: Lord...

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Oscar Wilde: When we are...

Oscar Wilde: When we are...

When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy.

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Oscar Wilde: Only mediocrities progress....

Oscar Wilde: Only mediocrities progress....

Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than...

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Oscar Wilde: Murder is always...

Oscar Wilde: Murder is always...

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

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Oscar Wilde: Nowadays to be...

Oscar Wilde: Nowadays to be...

Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.

Source: Lord Darlington, in Lady...

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Oscar Wilde: Examinations, sir, are...

Oscar Wilde: Examinations, sir, are...

Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is...

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Oscar Wilde: The mind of...

Oscar Wilde: The mind of...

The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-?-brac shop, all monsters and...

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Oscar Wilde: There is no...

Oscar Wilde: There is no...

There is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for...

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Oscar Wilde: What a fuss...

Oscar Wilde: What a fuss...

What a fuss people make about fidelity! Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do...

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Oscar Wilde: There is only...

Oscar Wilde: There is only...

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked...

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Oscar Wilde: I adore political...

Oscar Wilde: I adore political...

I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk...

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Oscar Wilde: Men marry because...

Oscar Wilde: Men marry because...

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

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Oscar Wilde: We can have...

Oscar Wilde: We can have...

We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often...

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Oscar Wilde: Nowadays most people...

Oscar Wilde: Nowadays most people...

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one...

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Oscar Wilde: The tragedy of...

Oscar Wilde: The tragedy of...

The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.

Source: Lord...

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Oscar Wilde: Fathers should be...

Oscar Wilde: Fathers should be...

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

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Oscar Wilde: People who love...

Oscar Wilde: People who love...

People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I...

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Oscar Wilde: Philanthropic people lose...

Oscar Wilde: Philanthropic people lose...

Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing...

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Oscar Wilde: As long as...

Oscar Wilde: As long as...

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly...

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Oscar Wilde: The body sins...

Oscar Wilde: The body sins...

The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the...

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