Oscar Wilde Quotes

“There are only two kinds of women, the plain and the coloured.”

“Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar.”

“The only thing worse than quoting me, is not quoting me”

“I didn't say I liked it Harry. I said it fascinated me. There is a great difference.”

“He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.”

“Oh, how I vainly wished to the bearded man in the sky that I was Neapolitan. Why? So I could bring in a fine Neapolitan pest control to help with Queensberry's problem before it gets out of hand.”

“The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.”

“Like strange mechanical grotesques,Making fantastic arabesques,The shadows raced across the blind.”

“I'll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister. Women only do that when they have called each other a lot of other things first.”

“He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.”

“I am tired of myself to-night. I should like to be somebody else.”

“Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.”

“Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.”

“In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.”

“Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.”

“Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories.”

“The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering.”

“I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.”

“If you cannot prove a man wrong, don't panic. You can always call him names.”

“Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.”

“But she is happiest alone. She is happiest alone.”

“A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime.”

“To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.”

“If it is not nailed to the floor, it's mine. If I can pry it loose, it is not nailed down.”

“For a year after that was done to me I wept every day at the same hour and for the same space of time. That is not such a tragic thing as possibly it sounds to you. To those who are in prison tears are a part of every day's experience. A day in prison on which one does not weep is a day on which one's heart is hard, not a day on which one's heart is happy.”