Quotes By Oscar Wilde

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

In married life three is company and two none.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

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.

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.

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

When good Americans die they go to Paris.

All art is quite useless.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

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.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.