Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Some people always know the price, but not the value.
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There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
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It is a much cleverer thing to talk nonsense than to listen to it.
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Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
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The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
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A man who can dominate a London dinner table can dominate the world. The future belongs to the dandy. It is the exquisites who are going to rule.
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My philosophy? I'm always right and you are wrong.
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I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.
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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
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Millionaire models are rare enough; but, by Jove, model millionaires are rarer still!
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The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.
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Her trust makes me faithful, her belief makes me good.
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One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
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Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.
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The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
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Travel ennobles the spirit and does away with our prejudices.
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The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.
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Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
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There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose.
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To get into the best society nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people.
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I'll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister. Women only do that when they have called each other a lot of other things first.
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Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
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Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.
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No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.