Quotes By Oscar Wilde
In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
Oscar Wilde
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
Oscar Wilde
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
Oscar Wilde
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
Oscar Wilde
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
Oscar Wilde
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
Oscar Wilde
When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
Oscar Wilde
I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
Oscar Wilde
Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde
Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
Oscar Wilde
There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
Oscar Wilde
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
Oscar Wilde
Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
Oscar Wilde