Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan Quotes

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

Experience is a question of instinct about life.

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.

Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .

I don't like compliments and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.

Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.

Don't be led astray into the paths of virtue.