Quotes By Oscar Wilde

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

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.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

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

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.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

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

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

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.

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