Quotes from Oscar Wilde

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.

Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humour in the woman.

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

I don't recognize you - I've changed a lot.

Bigamy ? It's having one wife too much... ...Monogamy ? It's the same.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

There can be nothing more frequent than an occasional drink.

To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.

Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary.

The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.

On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose.

Genius is born-not paid

However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive.

Give me the luxuries and I can dispense with the necessities.