Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.
Oscar Wilde
It is only about things that do not interest one, that one can give a really unbiased opinion; and this is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is…
Oscar Wilde
All art is quite useless.
Oscar Wilde
Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
Oscar Wilde
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
Oscar Wilde
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
Oscar Wilde
Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed.
Oscar Wilde
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar Wilde
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. Boston web designs
Oscar Wilde
The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.
Oscar Wilde
Life is one fool thing after another where as love is two fool things after each other.
Oscar Wilde
Yet each man kills the thing he loves, from all let this be heard. Some does it with a bitter look, some with a flattering word. The coward does it…
Oscar Wilde
Men always want to be a woman's first love; women have a more subtle instinct: what they like is to be a man's last romance.
Oscar Wilde
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
Oscar Wilde
The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of…
Oscar Wilde
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar Wilde
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
Oscar Wilde
Woman are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
Oscar Wilde
Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.
Oscar Wilde
To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you.
Oscar Wilde
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
Oscar Wilde
Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.
Oscar Wilde
My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.
Oscar Wilde
Men can be analyzed, women merely adored.
Oscar Wilde
An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant, as the case may be. It is hardly a matter that she could be allowed to…
Oscar Wilde
Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others.
Oscar Wilde
No man should have a secret from his wife; she invariably finds out.
Oscar Wilde
The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-?-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value. dentist los…
Oscar Wildev
When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck;…
Oscar Wilde
Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.
Oscar Wilde
Duty is what one expects from others.
Oscar Wilde
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
Oscar Wilde
But what is the difference between literature and journalism? Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.
Oscar Wilde
Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
Oscar Wilde
I can resist everything except temptation.
Oscar Wilde
True friends stab you in the front.
Oscar Wilde
I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
Oscar Wilde
I am not young enough to know everything.
Oscar Wilde
Everyone who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
Oscar Wilde
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Oscar Wilde
Where there is no exaggeration there is no love, and where there is no love there is no understanding.
Oscar Wilde
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar Wilde
A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.
Oscar Wilde
As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
Oscar Wilde
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on; it is never of any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde
Those whom the gods love grow young.
Oscar Wilde
More than half modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.
Oscar Wilde
There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
Oscar Wilde
Ultimately the bond of all companionship, wheather in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.
Oscar Wilde
Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man?s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
Oscar Wilde
It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about, nowadays, saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.
Oscar Wilde
To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.
Oscar Wilde
A man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.
Oscar Wilde
Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose.
Oscar Wilde
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
Oscar Wilde
Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.
Oscar Wilde
Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.
Oscar Wilde
It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
Oscar Wilde
The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
Oscar Wilde
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But it is better to be good than to be ugly.
Oscar Wilde
The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
Oscar Wilde
Alas, I am dying beyond my means.
Oscar Wilde
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar Wilde
The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.
Oscar Wilde
We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
Oscar Wilde
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
Oscar Wilde
Punctuality is the thief of time.
Oscar Wilde
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Oscar Wilde
One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.
Oscar Wilde
America is the first country to have gone from barbarism to decadence without the usual intervening period of civilization.
Oscar Wilde
A kiss may ruin a human life.
Oscar Wilde
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Oscar Wilde
One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. If she tells that, she'll tell anything.
Oscar Wilde
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Oscar Wilde
No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
Oscar Wilde
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
Skepticism is the beginning of faith.
Oscar Wilde
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.