Quotes By Oscar Wilde

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

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

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

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

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

There is no sin except stupidity.

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

It is always the unreadable that occurs.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Everything popular is wrong.

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

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

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.