120 quotes by Oscar Wilde

“I am tired of myself tonight.
I should like to be somebody else.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.” — Oscar Wilde

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“The curves of your lips rewrite history.” — Oscar Wilde

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“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.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.” — Oscar Wilde

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“If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.” — Oscar Wilde

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“The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.” — Oscar Wilde

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“As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Work is the curse of the drinking classes.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.” — Oscar Wilde

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“No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.” — Oscar Wilde

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“I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.” — Oscar Wilde

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“All art is quite useless.” — Oscar Wilde

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“It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.” — Oscar Wilde

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“What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.” — Oscar Wilde

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“One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Biography lends to death a new terror.” — Oscar Wilde

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“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.” — Oscar Wilde

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