Quotes from Oscar Wilde

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances

Education is...[A process] which makes one rogue cleverer than another.

An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the LUXURY of an emotion without paying for it.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what world calls a romance

Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance

Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man's last romance.

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.

The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.

To get into the best society nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people

It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.

Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.