If you are going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh or they will kill you. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to you,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When people talk to me about the weather, I always feel they mean something else. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other’s character before… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I am not laughing, Dorian; at least I am not laughing at you. But you should not say the greatest romance of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Do you know that I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world? Certainly the greatest… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I never take any notice to what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To live is the most rarest thing in the world;most people exist,that is all. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything. Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself don’t interest me. They have not got the charm of novelty. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“It is always painful to part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of… — 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 Image
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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 Image
