Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Without order nothing can exist-without chaos nothing can evolve. Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.… — 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
Christ did not die to save people, but to teach people how to save each other. This is, I have no doubt,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into… — 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
Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them. The past, the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Misery and poverty are so absolutely degrading, and exercise such a paralysing effect over the nature of men, that no class is… — 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
Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
People say sometimes that Beauty is superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I'm sure I don't know half the people who come to my house. Indeed, from all I hear, I shouldn't like to. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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
Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If we're always guided by other people's thoughts, what's the point in having our own? — 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
