People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In England people actually try to be brilliant at breakfast. That is so dreadful of them! Only dull people are brilliant at… — 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
Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a… — 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
In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people… The Japanese… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty… — 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
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
London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce… — 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
If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern) — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
That beauty which is meant by art is no mere accident of human life which people can take or leave, but a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done… — 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
It is very vulgar to talk about one's own business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then only at dinner parties. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
God grant me the serenity to accept that people are ignorant, the courage to uphold the law when I'm hostile, & the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The people who have adored me-- there have not been very many, but there have been some-- have always insisted on living… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob. It is through the voice of one… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to… — 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
