Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.
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I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five.
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If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.
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More women grow old nowadays through the faithfulness of their admirers than through anything else.
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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.
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You know what a woman's curiosity is.
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I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.
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I have a business appointment that I am anxious... to miss.
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Philanthropy has become simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.
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Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
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An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be.
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When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, as any one who knows me intimately will tell you, I refuse everything except food and drink. At the present moment I am eating muffins because I am unhappy. Besides, I am particularly fond of muffins.
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To define is to limit.
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There is one thing infinitely more pathetic than to have lost the woman one is in love with, and that is to have won her and found out how shallow she is!
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He hadn’t a single redeeming vice.
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Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic — a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.
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I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering.
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This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
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I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind (as poisonous things grow in the dark) and take its place with the other terrible thoughts that gnaw me.
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I am Irish by race but the English have condemned me to talk the language of Shakespeare.
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Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.
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I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.
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She is a peacock in everything but beauty.
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Cleverness becomes a public nuisance.