Quotes By Oscar Wilde

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.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

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.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.