Quotes By Oscar Wilde
When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
Oscar Wilde
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
Oscar Wilde
There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
Oscar Wilde
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
Oscar Wilde
There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
Oscar Wilde
While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
Oscar Wilde
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
Oscar Wilde
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
Oscar Wilde
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Oscar Wilde
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
Oscar Wilde