Oscar Wilde
224 quotations
The truth is rarely pure, and never simple
Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people.
Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.
She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.
Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others.
Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.
Work is the curse of the drinking class.
Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back in again.
Those whom the gods love grow young.
Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.
It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.
Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.
The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.