Famous Quotes / Oscar Wilde
620 Quotations by Oscar Wilde
- 121. Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect fo ...
- 122. Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London.
- 123. For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sit ...
- 124. For every complex question, there's a simple answer, and it's wrong.
- 125. For his mourners will be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.
- 126. Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them. Cheap editions of g ...
- 127. Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses -- once!
- 128. From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point ...
- 129. Genius is born--not paid.
- 130. Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educ ...
- 131. Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
- 132. Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity ...
- 133. Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life.
- 134. Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
- 135. He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temp ...
- 136. He hadn't a single redeeming vice.
- 137. He has never written a single book, so you can imagine how much he knows.
- 138. He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
- 139. He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.
- 140. He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.