Quotes By Oscar Wilde

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

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

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

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