Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.
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Don't feed the trolls; nothing fuels them so much.
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It is personalities not principles that move the age.
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Lord Caversham: No woman, plain or pretty, has any common sense at all, sir. Common sense is the privilege of our sex.Lord Goring: Quite so. And we men are so self-sacrificing that we never use it, do we, father?
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It is quite true that I have worshipped you with far more romance of feeling than a man usually gives to a friend. Somehow, I had never loved a woman. I suppose I never had time. Perhaps, as Harry says, a really grande passion is the privilege of those who have nothing to do, and that is the use of the idle classes in a country.
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The home seems to me to be the proper sphere for the man. And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not?
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If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself - a rare type in our time ... you rise from table richer, and conscious that a high ideal has for a moment touched and sanctified your days. But Oh! my dear Ernest, to sit next to a man who has spent his life in trying to educate others! What a dreadful experience that is!
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With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man, or themselves die. Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and the sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.
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As a rule, I think they are quite impossible. Geniuses talk so much, don't they? Such a bad habit! And they are always thinking about themselves, when I want them to be thinking about me.
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I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself don’t interest me. They have not got the charm of novelty.
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People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only one answer. The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all.
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Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.
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Conscience makes egotists of us all.
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The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.
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Nobody ever commits a crime without doing something stupid.
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One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.
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I didn't have a life until I went up onstage.
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Woman's first duty in life is to her dressmaker. What the second duty is no one has yet discovered.
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I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.
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The gods bestowed on Max the gift of perpetual old age.
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Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things. That is exactly what things were originally made for.
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Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense.
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Life would be dull without them.
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To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.