Quotes By Oscar Wilde

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

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

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

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.

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?

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

Everything popular is wrong.

There is no sin except stupidity.

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

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

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.