Oscar Wilde Of Quotations

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about.

Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. Gwendolen. [Satirically.] I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.

Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.

I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.

A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.

Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.

Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.

I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.

My dear Algy, you talk exactly as if you were a dentist. It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces false impression

You told me you had destroyed it." "I was wrong. It has destroyed me.

No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself

You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing.

I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice.

Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.

The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great.

All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life.

If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.

Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.

The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.

I wrote when I did not know life; now that I do know the meaning of life, I have no more to write. Life cannot be written; life can only be lived.

Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved.

It is awfully hard work doing nothing.

More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read.

What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land.

The essence of thought, as the essence of life, is growth.

One should absorb the color of life.

And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very attractive.

Finding the meaning of life is easy. Simply get a dictionary, go to the 'L' section, and find the word 'life.'