Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854-10-16 – 1900-11-30) was an Irish playwright, poet and author of essays and novels.

Found 239 thoughts of Oscar Wilde

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

...my dear boy, no woman is a genius. They are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

It is an odd thing, but everyone who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and possess all the attractions of the next world.

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.

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their own peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their own peril.

Divorces are made in heaven.

Brothers? Oh, I hate brothers. My older brother just doesn't know when to die, and my younger brothers seem to do nothing but.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

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