Quotes by Oscar Wilde
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
In England people actually try to be brilliant at breakfast. That is so dreadful of them! Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Alas, I am dying beyond my means.
True friends stab you in the front.
Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
I have nothing to declare except my genuis.
It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about, nowadays, saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.
In married life three is company and two none.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.
Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
A true friend stabs you in the front.
The General was essentially a man of peace, except of course in his domestic affairs.
