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

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

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

A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.

The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation...

A man cannot be too careful in his choice of enemies.

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.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

In the world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

I have met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes of this country.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

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.

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The final mystery is oneself.

Men always want to be a womans first love - women like to be a mans last romance.

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The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything: the young know everything.

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No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.

I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.

The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.

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