Famous Quotes

Quotes by Oscar Wilde

• 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.
• 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.