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Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
Democracy
Oscar Wilde

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Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.
Despotism
Oscar Wilde

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

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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Fashion
Oscar Wilde

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Fashion, by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.
Fashion
Oscar Wilde

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Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
Fathers
Oscar Wilde

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For he who lives more lives than one: More deaths than one must die.
Death and Dying
Oscar Wilde

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For his mourners will be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.
Outcasts
Oscar Wilde

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Good taste is the excuse I have given for leading such a bad life.
Taste
Oscar Wilde

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He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
Romance and Romanticism
Oscar Wilde

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He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigram on his tombstone.
Aphorisms and Epigrams
Oscar Wilde

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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
Loyalty
Oscar Wilde

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In America, the President reigns for four years, and journalism governs for ever and ever.
President
Oscar Wilde

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.
Change
Oscar Wilde

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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
Friends and Friendship
Oscar Wilde

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Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.
Housework
Oscar Wilde

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No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.
Opinions
Oscar Wilde

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Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.
Information
Oscar Wilde

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Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
Dreams
Oscar Wilde

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The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.
Respectability
Oscar Wilde

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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Genius
Oscar Wilde

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The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.
America
Oscar Wilde

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When a man has once loved a woman, he will do anything for her, except continue to love her.
Love Ended
Oscar Wilde

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When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.
Socializing and Socialism
Oscar Wilde

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Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others.
Wickedness
Oscar Wilde

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun