Quotes from Oscar Wilde

To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life.

Where your life leads you, you must go

The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability.

Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so.

Ah! somehow life is bigger after all Than any painted angel could we see The God that is within us!

Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.

No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself

The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.

Life is a great disappointment.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.

'The Lady's World' should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women's opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a social manifesto in its mouth much bigger than itself.

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

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise for which we are later, in the fullness of time and understanding, very grateful for!

A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten.