Quotes About Oscar Wilde

I am prevented from coming in consequence of a subsequent engagement. I think that would be a rather nice excuse: it would have all the surprise of candour.

Good heavens!  Is marriage so demoralizing as that? Lane.  I believe it is a very pleasant state, sir.  I have had very little experience of it myself up to the present.  I have only been married once.  That was in consequence of a misunderstanding between myself and a young person. Algernon.

Oh, I like tedious, practical subjects. What I don't like are tedious, practical people. There is a wide difference.

Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity.

When I had to fill in my immigration papers, I gave my age as 19, and my profession as genius; I added that I had nothing to declare except my talent.

I love Oscar Wilde, still the wittiest writer of anyone, dead or living.

The evil that machinery is doing is not merely in the consequence of its work but in the fact that it makes men themselves machines also.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.

When good Americans die they go to Paris.

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue,' wrote Oscar Wilde in The Soul of Man Under Socialism.

All the quips in the world couldn't prevent Oscar Wilde from becoming a lovesick fool.

It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.

What was it Oscar Wilde said?" "I can resist everything except temptation.

I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.

Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life.

It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.

Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.

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

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.

The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.

35 is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

You know what a woman's curiosity is.