Quotes by Oscar Wilde
You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.
An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.
A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
It is always the unreadable that occurs.
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.
