Famous Quotes

Quotes by Oscar Wilde

• Success is a science if you have the conditions, you get the result.
• The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
• The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
• The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
• The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
• The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
• The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
• The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.
• The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
• The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
• The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
• There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
• There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
• There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
• 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.
• There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
• There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
• This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
• Those whom the gods love grow young.
• To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
• To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
• True friends stab you in the front.
• What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
• When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
• When good Americans die they go to Paris.
• 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.
• Who, being loved, is poor?
• Women are made to be loved, not understood.
• Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
• Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
• Work is the curse of the drinking classes.