Quotes by Oscar Wilde
True friends stab you in the front. Friendship
One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.
I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
These days man knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
