3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.
3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.
3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.
3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly.
3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
3 December 2020 Oscar Wilde There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
