Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- “I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.”
by Oscar Wilde - “There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.”
by Oscar Wilde - “Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.”
by Oscar Wilde - “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.”
by Oscar Wilde - “Biography lends to death a new terror.”
by Oscar Wilde - “Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.”
by Oscar Wilde - “There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
by Oscar Wilde - “Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.”
by Oscar Wilde - “I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.”
by Oscar Wilde - “Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.”
by Oscar Wilde - “The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.”
by Oscar Wilde - “I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.”
by Oscar Wilde - “Hatred is blind, as well as love.”
by Oscar Wilde - “He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.”
by Oscar Wilde - “The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.”
by Oscar Wilde - “The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.”
by Oscar Wilde - “Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.”
by Oscar Wilde - “Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.”
by Oscar Wilde - “The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.”
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