quotes from classic

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

more quotes from Oscar Wilde

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

more quotes from Oscar Wilde

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

more quotes from Oscar Wilde

It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

more quotes from Oscar Wilde

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

more quotes from Oscar Wilde

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

more quotes from Oscar Wilde

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

more quotes from Oscar Wilde

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

more quotes from Oscar Wilde

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

more quotes from Oscar Wilde

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

more quotes from Oscar Wilde

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

more quotes from Oscar Wilde

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

more quotes from Oscar Wilde

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

more quotes from Oscar Wilde

It is always the unreadable that occurs.

more quotes from Oscar Wilde

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.

more quotes from Oscar Wilde

There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.

more quotes from Oscar Wilde

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

more quotes from Oscar Wilde

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

more quotes from Oscar Wilde

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

more quotes from Oscar Wilde

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.

more quotes from Oscar Wilde