Humor Quotes by Oscar Wilde

“The ages live in history through their anachronisms.”

— Oscar Wilde

Seriousness is the last refuge of the shallow.

— Oscar Wilde

I have nothing to declare except my genius.

— Oscar Wilde

I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

— Oscar Wilde

It is a very dangerous thing to know one’s friends.

— Oscar Wilde

“I am dying beyond my means”

— Oscar Wilde

“My dear fellow, I am prepared to prove anything.”

— Oscar Wilde

I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.

— Oscar Wilde

The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.

— Oscar Wilde

Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humour in the woman.

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

— Oscar Wilde

It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously

— Oscar Wilde

“A grapefruit is only a lemon that saw an opportunity and took advantage of it.”

— Oscar Wilde

“My doctor says I must not have any serious conversation after seven [o'clock]. It makes me talk in my sleep.”

— Oscar Wilde

“I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”

— Oscar Wilde

Lawyers have been known to wrest from reluctant juries triumphant verdicts of acquittal for their clients, even when those clients, as often…

— Oscar Wilde

There is no such thing as romance in our day, women have become too brilliant; nothing spoils a romance so much as…

— Oscar Wilde

“And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable…

— Oscar Wilde

“Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins…

— Oscar Wilde

Imagination is a quality that was given to man compensate him from whats not. The sense of humor was given to console…

— Oscar Wilde

I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.

— Oscar Wilde

“LADY BRACKNELL To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each…

— Oscar Wilde

A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime.

— Oscar Wilde

“I was on the point of explaining to Gerald that the world has always laughed at its own tragedies, that being the…

— Oscar Wilde

“LADY BRACKNELL Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of…

— Oscar Wilde

“The post on her left was occupied by Mr. Erskine of Treadley, an old gentleman of considerable charm and culture, who had…

— Oscar Wilde

“The doctors found out that Bunbury could not live, that is what I mean - so Bunbury died. He seems to have…

— Oscar Wilde

Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make…

— Oscar Wilde

“Cecil Graham: What is a cynic? Lord Darlington: A man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing. Cecil…

— Oscar Wilde

Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.

— Oscar Wilde

“If a woman cannot make her mistakes charming, she is only a female.”

— Oscar Wilde

“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Women have no appreciation of good looks—at least, good women have not.”

— Oscar Wilde

The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.

— Oscar Wilde

[on his deathbed in a Paris hotel room] Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.

— Oscar Wilde

He hasn't an enemy in the world, and none of his friend like him.

— Oscar Wilde

Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman

— Oscar Wilde

We are specially designed to appeal to the sense of humour.

— Oscar Wilde

“I never intend to grow old. The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.”

— Oscar Wilde