Oscar Wilde Quotes

Niagara ... is the first disappointment in the married life of many Americans who spend their honeymoon there.

I must confess that most modern mysticism seems to me to be simply a method of imparting useless knowledge in a form that no one can understand

Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever. It is a meaningless word, too.

JACK: I will be back in a few moments, dear Canon. Gwendolen! Wait here for me!GWENDOLEN: If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood

it is a marvel that those red-roseleaf lips of yours should be made no less for the madness of music and song than for the madness of kissing.

A man cannot be too careful in his choice of enemies. I have not got one who is a fool. They are all men of some intellectual power, and consequently they all appreciate me.

A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. I have not got one who is a fool.

Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist.

Everything is going to be fine in the end. If it's not fine it's not the end.

I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much.

in every pleasure, cruelty has its place...

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

The play was a great success but the audience was a disaster.

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

The old believe everything: the middle-aged suspect everything: the young know everything.

(A country where) the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.

Good artists exist simply in what they make and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

Every great man nowadays has his disciples and it is always Judas who writes the biography.

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

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

Always! That is the dreadful word ... it is a meaningless word too.

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

At every single moment of one's life one is going to be no less than what one has been.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

If England treats her criminals the way she has treated me she doesn't deserve to have any.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword.

When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

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

For he who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die.

Education is an admirable thing but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

He hasn't an enemy in the world and none of his friends like him.

A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is according to the mode in which one looks at it.

I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely if ever do they forgive them.

The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion enmity worship love but no friendship.

Pleasure is the only thing to live for. Nothing ages like happiness.

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

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about and that is not being talked about.

In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants and the other is getting it.

When a love comes to an end weaklings cry efficient ones instantly find another love and the wise already have one in reserve.

There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has the right to blame us.

I hope you have not been leading a double life pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves and fibers and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.

To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.

For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.