Oscar Wilde Quotes

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

Men always want to be a woman's first love, -women want to be a man's last romance.

The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

You will always be loved, and you will always be in love with love. A grande passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do.

Moral grounds are always the last refuge of people who have no sense of beauty.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

No: a poor man who is ungrateful, unthrifty, discontented and rebellious, is probably a real personality, and has much in him...As for the virtuous poor...they have made private terms with the enemy,...

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

. . . try as we may we cannot get behind things to the reality. And the terrible reason may be that there is no reality in things apart from their appearances.

I can write no stately proemAs a prelude to my lay;From a poet to a poemI would dare to say.For if of these fallen petalsOne to you seem fair,Love will waft it till it settlesOn your hair.And when win...

After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the wo...

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

Men know life too early women know life too late.

Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

Ah! realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common,...