Famous Quotes

Quotes by Oscar Wilde

• A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
• A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
• A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
• A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
• A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
• A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
• All art is quite useless.
• All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
• All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
• Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
• Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
• An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him.
• Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
• Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
• Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
• As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
• Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
• Biography lends to death a new terror.
• Children begin by loving their parents after a time they judge them rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
• Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
• Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
• Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
• Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
• Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
• Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
• Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
• Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
• Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
• Hatred is blind, as well as love.
• He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
• How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
• How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
• I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
• I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
• I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
• I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
• I put all my genius into my life I put only my talent into my works.
• I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
• I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.