3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.
3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life now that I am old I know that it is.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde Children begin by loving their parents after a time they judge them rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde It is only by not paying one’s bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
