Famous Quotes

Quotes by Oscar Wilde

• I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
• I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
• I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
• I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
• I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.
• If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
• If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
• If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
• If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
• 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.
• In married life three is company and two none.
• In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
• It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
• It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
• It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
• It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
• It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
• It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
• Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
• Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
• Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
• Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
• Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
• Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
• Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
• Men marry because they are tired women, because they are curious both are disappointed.
• Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
• No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
• No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
• Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
• One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
• One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
• One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
• Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
• Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
• Society exists only as a mental concept in the real world there are only individuals.
• Some cause happiness wherever they go others whenever they go.
• Success is a science if you have the conditions, you get the result.