Quotes By Oscar Wilde

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.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

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

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

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

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

The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

I have nothing to declare except my genuis.

I am not young enough to know everything.

Only the shallow know themselves.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

I can resist everything except temptation.

An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.