When good Americans die, they go to Paris" "Where do bad Americans go?" "They stay in America — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“In America, the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefit of their inexperience.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it has merely been detected. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
And, by the way, one of the most delightful things I find in America is meeting a people without prejudice -- everywhere… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In one dancing saloon I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The beautiful, passionate, ruined South, the land of magnolias and music, of roses and romance . . . living on the memory of crushing defeats — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When I went to America I had two secretaries, one for autographs, one for locks of hair. Within six months the one… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The first thing that struck me on landing in America was that if the Americans are not the most well-dressed people in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
America is the noisiest country that ever existed. One is waked up in the morning, not by the singing of the nightingale,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The Americans are an extremely interesting people. They are absolutely reasonable. I think that is their distinguishing characteristic...I assure you there is… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The crude commercialism of America, its materialising spirit, its indifference to the poetical side of things, and its lack of imagination and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances invention ends in disappointment and poverty.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America. It was not until I had seen… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
An entirely new factor has appeared in the social development of the country, and this factor is the Irish-American, and his influence.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Marriage is hardly a thing one can do now and then, except in America. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
