Oscar Wilde
224 quotations
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses -- once!
When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy.
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?
Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.
The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet's dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.
They are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.
The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.
The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.
Ignorance is like a delicate fruit; touch it, and the bloom is gone.
The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.
Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.
Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.
Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.
Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are.
Bad manners make a journalist.
A kiss may ruin a human life.
It is always the unreadable that occurs.
I am not young enough to know everything.