Oscar Wilde
224 quotations
Woman's first duty in life is to her dressmaker. What the second duty is no one has yet discovered.
Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Fashion, by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.
Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
None of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.
Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Always forgive your enemies -- nothing annoys them so much.
An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
One should always play fair when one has the winning cards.
I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
I have nothing to declare except my genius.
A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.
No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.
Ambition is the last refuge of failure.
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.
There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America.