Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- “No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.”
by Oscar Wilde - “One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.”
by Oscar Wilde - “The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.”
by Oscar Wilde - “I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.”
by Oscar Wilde - “One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.”
by Oscar Wilde - “Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.”
by Oscar Wilde - “There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life’s sores the better.”
by Oscar Wilde - “Who, being loved, is poor?”
by Oscar Wilde - “I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.”
by Oscar Wilde - “When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.”
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 - “Hatred is blind, as well as love.”
by Oscar Wilde - “I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.”
by Oscar Wilde - “Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.”
by Oscar Wilde - “Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.”
by Oscar Wilde - “There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.”
by Oscar Wilde - “Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.”
by Oscar Wilde - “Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”
by Oscar Wilde - “One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.”
by Oscar Wilde - “Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.”
by Oscar Wilde