Quotes By Oscar Wilde

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

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

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

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

It is always the unreadable that occurs.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

Everything popular is wrong.

There is no sin except stupidity.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

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

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

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.

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

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

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

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.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.