Oscar Wilde Quotes
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You should never give a woman something she can't wear in the evening.
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
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With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.
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Nothing that actually occurs is of the smallest importance.
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
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The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.
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In married life three is company and two none.
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Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.
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When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.
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The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
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Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.
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Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
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Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.
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And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life.
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One should never make one's debut in a scandal. One should reserve that to give interest to one's old age.
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A burnt child loves the fire.
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Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.
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Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.
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Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so.
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Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.
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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.