We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that
they become absolutely stupid.
- Oscar Wilde
How marriage ruins
a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and
far more expensive.
- Oscar Wilde
Between men and women there is no friendship possible.
There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
- Oscar Wilde
One knows so well the popular idea of health. The English country
gentleman galloping after a fox. The unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
— Oscar Wilde
His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As
a writer
he has mastered everything except language.
- Oscar Wilde writing about author George Meredith
It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done.
- Oscar Wilde
When both a speaker and an audience are confused, the speech
is profound.
- Oscar Wilde
It is very vulgar to talk about one's own business. Only people like stockbrokers do
that, and then only at dinner parties.
- Oscar Wilde
In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not
getting what one wants, and the other is getting it . . . . the last is a real tragedy!
- Oscar Wilde
Educationis an admirable thing, but it is
well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
- Oscar Wilde
If we men married the women we deserve, we should have a very bad time of it.
— Oscar Wilde
She said that she would dance with me if I brought her
red roses but in all my garden there is no red rose.
- Oscar Wilde
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
- Oscar Wilde
Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.
- Oscar Wilde
The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being
terribly, terribly deceived.
- Oscar Wilde
Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the
heart out of it by excess.
- Oscar Wilde
Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious. Both are
disappointed.
— Oscar Wilde
The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without
one.
- Oscar Wilde
One must have some sort of occupation nowadays. If I hadn't my debts I shouldn't have
anything to think about.
- Oscar Wilde
Only the shallow know themselves.
- Oscar Wilde
It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the
commercial classes.
- Oscar Wilde
I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the oportunity of finding out each
other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.
— Oscar Wilde
Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is
what other people wear.
- Oscar Wilde
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know
absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
- Oscar Wilde
All ways end at the same point ... Disillusion.
— Oscar Wilde
The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible.
What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.
— Oscar Wilde
One should never make one's debut with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an
interest to one's old age.
- Oscar Wilde
A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
— Oscar Wilde
The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know
everything.
— Oscar Wilde
No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
— Oscar Wilde
All art is quite useless.
— Oscar Wilde
Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece?
- Oscar Wilde (when asked to change a play)
An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining
young.
— Oscar Wilde
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
- Oscar Wilde
To lose one parent is
misfortune; to lose two parents is sheer carelessness.
- Oscar Wilde
It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely
fatal.
- Oscar Wilde
When people agree with me, I think I am wrong.
- Oscar Wilde
I have nothing to declare but my genius. (to a U.S. Customs officer)
- Oscar Wilde
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do
so at their peril.
— Oscar Wilde
When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
- Oscar Wilde
Never give a woman advice, one should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the
evening.
- Oscar Wilde
One should always be in love. That is the reason why one should never marry.
— Oscar Wilde
I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the
complex.
- Oscar Wilde
The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can
sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the
knowledge of defeat.
- Oscar Wilde
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There
is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
- Oscar Wilde
I can resist everything except temptation.
- Oscar Wilde
America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up.
- Oscar Wilde
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely
everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
- Oscar Wilde
One should always play fairly when one has the winning
cards.
- Oscar Wilde
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
- Oscar Wilde
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
- Oscar Wilde
The play was a great success, but the audience was a total
failure.
- Oscar Wilde
The problem with socialism is that it will take up too many evenings.
- Oscar Wilde
What between the duties expected of one during one's
lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a
pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about
land.
— Oscar Wilde
Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
- Oscar Wilde
Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
- Oscar Wilde
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