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Oscar Wilde
Irish
Dramatist
About the author
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Living
#Wishes
#Selfishness
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Fashion
#Months
#Ugliness
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Past
#Future
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Teaching
#Learning
Everything popular is wrong.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Popular
#Wrong
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Advice
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Mistakes
#Experience
#Name
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Friends
#Enemies
Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Life
#Family
#Fathers
Hatred is blind, as well as love.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Love
#Blind
#Hatred
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Feeling
#Artist
How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Marriage
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Consistency
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Being
#Man
#Woman
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Nothing
#Experience
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Ignorance
#Community
#Opinions
#Journalism
#Giving
I have nothing to declare except my genuis.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Nothing
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Man
#Friends
#Enemies
#Choice
I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Reason
#Intellect
#Force
I can resist everything except temptation.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Temptation
I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#World
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Death
#Facts
#Vulgarity
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Saying
#Word
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Time
#Nothing
#Education
#Worth
Charity creates a multitude of sins.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Charity
Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Time
#Children
#Parents
Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Weather
#Conversation
Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#World
#Romance
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#People
#Democracy
Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Strength
#Temptation
#Courage
#Yield
#Weakness
#Temptations
Biography lends to death a new terror.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Death
#Terror
#Biography
Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Man
#Woman
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Man
#Motives
Women are made to be loved, not understood.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Women
Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Men
#Difference
#Women
#Compliments
#Sexes
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Love
#Will
#Women
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Work
#Drinking
Who, being loved, is poor?
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Being
#Poor
While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Actor
#Romance
#Realism
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#People
#Wrong
Why was I born with such contemporaries?
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Seriousness
The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Imagination
#Spirit
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Temptation
#Yield
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#People
#Nothing
There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Right
#Luxury
#Self
#Blame
There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Love
#People
#Emotions
There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Authority
#Necessity
#Mob
There is no sin except stupidity.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Stupidity
#Sin
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Books
There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Nothing
#World
#Man
#Woman
#Devotion
The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Life
#World
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Want
#Food
#Dying
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Society
#Opinion
#Arguments
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Country
#Temptations
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Artist
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Art
#World
#Individualism
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Years
#Daughter
#Woman
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Will
#War
#Popular
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Country
#Civilization
#America
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Wife
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Failure
#Ambition
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#World
#Principles
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Travel
I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Life
#Talent
#Genius
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.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Art
#Being
#Sense
#Theatre
I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Love
#Men
#Women
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#God
#Ability
#Man
I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Tragedy
#Society
I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#God
#Ability
#Man
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Love
#Men
#Passion
#Women
#Friendship
#Worship
A true friend stabs you in the front.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Friend
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.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#World
#Rest
#Dawn
#Punishment
A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Feelings
#Gentleman
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Sincerity
A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Love
#Man
#Woman
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Man
#Enemies
#Choice
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Man
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Work
#Man
#Woman
#Fiction
#Autobiography
An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Man
#Friends
#Enemies
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Man
Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Arguments
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Work
#Art
#Result
#Temperament
Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
Alas, I am dying beyond my means.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Dying
All art is quite useless.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Art
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Feeling
#Poetry
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Man
#Tragedy
#Women
#Mothers
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Nothing
#Enemies
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Growth
#Ambition
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Reason
#Man
#Act
#Temper
It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Art
#Perfection
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Will
#Help
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Life
#Love
#Heart
#Flowers
#Garden
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Ending
#Beginning
#Friendship
#Laughter
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Life
#Art
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Talk
#Life
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Life
It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Old
Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Man
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Nothing
#Excess
#Moderation
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Will
#Man
#Truth
Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Memory
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Emotions
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#World
#Society
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Cause
#Happiness
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Life
#Marriage
#Charm
#Deception
Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Success
#Result
#Science
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Old
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Terror
#Optimism
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#World
#Books
#Shame
The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Public
#Artist
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Fiction
The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#World
#Man
#London
The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Work
#Art
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#End
#Science
#Sentiment
#Romance
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Death
#Reputation
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Difference
#Literature
#Journalism
One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Life
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Will
#Ugly
No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Woman
#Age
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Nothing
#Soul
#Cure
#Senses
Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Nothing
Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Now
#Trying
#Harm
There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#People
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Will
#Prison
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Advice
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Love
#Reason
One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#People
#Past
Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Genius
#Ridicule
#Tribute
Only the shallow know themselves.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Soul
Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Progress
#Ambition
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Virtue
#Patriotism
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#America
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Choice
Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Questions
#Answers
Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Wit
#Quotation
One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Play
#Winning
#Cards
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Stars
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Life
#Beauty
#Pain
#Sympathy
#Joy
There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Nothing
#World
#Man
#Woman
#Devotion
This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Hope
#Will
#Suspense
Those whom the gods love grow young.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Love
#Gods
To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Intellect
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#May
#Misfortune
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.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Nothing
#Poor
#Money
#Community
#Class
True friends stab you in the front.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Friends
There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Nothing
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Nothing
#Man
#Value
#Cynic
What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Art
#Old
#Duty
#Lying
When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Love
#Will
#Man
#Woman
When good Americans die they go to Paris.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Americans
#Paris
When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Now
#Life
#Thought
#Old
#Money
When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Gods
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Being
#Idea
#Unworthy
No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Past
#Man
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Love
#Beginning
#Romance
The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#World
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Public
#Genius
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Truth
The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Nothing
#Selling
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#World
#Mystery
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Truth
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Expression
#Machine
#Sister
The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#People
There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Life
#Being
The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#World
#Play
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Want
#Love
#First
#Men
#Woman
#Women
#First love
#Romance
Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Men
#Women
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Reading
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#People
#Attitude
#Morality
Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#People
#Mistakes
#Common sense
Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Duty
#Fiction
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Life
In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#America
#Benefits
It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Hope
#Memory
If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Talk
#People
#Music
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#People
#Opinions
#Thoughts
#Quotation
If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#World
#Trouble
#Sympathy
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Life
#Will
If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#World
#Stupidity
#Optimism
In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Years
#President
#America
#Journalism
In married life three is company and two none.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Life
#Company
In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Life
#Nothing
#World
#Effect
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Information
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#People
It is always the unreadable that occurs.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Ugly
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Income
It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Art
#Schools
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Talk
#Society
#English
#Irish
In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
Oscar Wilde,
Irish
Dramatist
#Opinion