Oscar Wilde Quotes

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

By Oscar Wilde

These days man knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.

By Oscar Wilde

There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.

By Oscar Wilde

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor

By Oscar Wilde

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

By Oscar Wilde

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

By Oscar Wilde

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

By Oscar Wilde

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

By Oscar Wilde

There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.

By Oscar Wilde

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.

By Oscar Wilde

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written

By Oscar Wilde

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

By Oscar Wilde

There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.

By Oscar Wilde

There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us

By Oscar Wilde

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

By Oscar Wilde

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

By Oscar Wilde

There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.

By Oscar Wilde

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

By Oscar Wilde

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

By Oscar Wilde

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

By Oscar Wilde

The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.

By Oscar Wilde

The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork - Oscar Wilde

By Oscar Wilde

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

By Oscar Wilde

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

By Oscar Wilde

The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves

By Oscar Wilde

The very essence of love is uncertainty.

By Oscar Wilde

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple.

By Oscar Wilde

The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.

By Oscar Wilde

The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women… merely adored.

By Oscar Wilde

The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly deceived

By Oscar Wilde