Quotes By Oscar Wilde

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

Only the shallow know themselves.

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

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

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.

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.

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

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.

I can resist everything except temptation.

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

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

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.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.