Oscar Wilde quotes

Tweet

...that hopefully will make someone smile. * All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. * Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much. * America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. * Ambition is the last refuge of the failure. * All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. * A true friend stabs you in the front. * An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. * Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion. * Biography lends to death a new terror. * Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all. * Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. * Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future. * Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. * Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. * I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself. * I am not young enough to know everything. * I can resist everything except temptation. * Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about. * It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. * In England people actually try to be brilliant at breakfast. That is so dreadful of them! Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast. * In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane. * If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life. * If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. * I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability. * I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. * I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. * Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm. * Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike. * Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. * I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best. * I have nothing to declare except my genuis. Laughed?