Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854-10-16 – 1900-11-30) was an Irish playwright, poet and author of essays and novels.
Found 376 thoughts of Oscar Wilde

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends up blocking his retreat.

Oscar Wilde

I have met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.

Oscar Wilde

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

Oscar Wilde

He has never written a single book, so you can imagine how much he knows.

Oscar Wilde

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

Oscar Wilde

Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.

Oscar Wilde

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Oscar Wilde

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Oscar Wilde

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Oscar Wilde

Divorces are made in heaven.

Oscar Wilde

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

Oscar Wilde

The final mystery is oneself.

Oscar Wilde

What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.

Oscar Wilde

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.

Oscar Wilde

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

Oscar Wilde

The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common!

Oscar Wilde

Live the wonderful life that is in you.

Oscar Wilde

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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

Oscar Wilde

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

Oscar Wilde

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

Oscar Wilde

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

Oscar Wilde

To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you.

Oscar Wilde

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what world calls a romance.

Oscar Wilde

When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.

Oscar Wilde
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