Quotes by Oscar Wilde
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.
No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of his friends like him.
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.
Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
I can resist everything except temptation.
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
Of course America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.
