Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
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We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.
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As for a spoiled life, no life is spoiled but one whose growth is arrested.
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Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.
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You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter - a girl brought up with the utmost care - to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel?
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No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide. I can quite understand how any ordinary critic would be strongly prejudiced against a work that was accompanied by a premature and unnecessary panegyric from the publisher. A publisher is simply a useful middle-man. It is not for him to anticipate the verdict of criticism.
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The ages live in history through their anachronisms.
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We spend our days, each one of us, in looking for the secret of life. Well, the secret of life is in Art.
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If you are going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh or they will kill you.
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I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.
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Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.
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Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.
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You might see nothing in him. I see everything in him.
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Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or shed tears. But in real life it is different. Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. Our Guildensterns play Hamlet for us, and our Hamlets have to jest like Prince Hal. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
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It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.
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Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.
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Everything in moderation, including moderation.
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If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.
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To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations.
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The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own.
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The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.
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One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
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Every woman is a rebel.
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A mask tells us more than a face.