Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- “If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.”
by Oscar Wilde - “When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.”
by Oscar Wilde - “It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”
by Oscar Wilde - “Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.”
by Oscar Wilde - “Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.”
by Oscar Wilde - “To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
by Oscar Wilde - “He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.”
by Oscar Wilde - “I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.”
by Oscar Wilde - “The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.”
by Oscar Wilde - “The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.”
by Oscar Wilde - “Who, being loved, is poor?”
by Oscar Wilde - “Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.”
by Oscar Wilde - “One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.”
by Oscar Wilde - “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.”
by Oscar Wilde - “Biography lends to death a new terror.”
by Oscar Wilde - “Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”
by Oscar Wilde - “No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.”
by Oscar Wilde - “Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.”
by Oscar Wilde - “Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.”
by Oscar Wilde - “A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.”
by Oscar Wilde