Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. ~ Oscar Wilde
~ The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is. ~ Oscar Wilde
~ In examinations, the foolish ask questions the wise cannot answer. ~ Oscar Wilde
~ The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is. ~ Oscar Wilde
~ Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. ~ Oscar Wilde
~ I like men who have a future and women who have a past ~ Oscar Wilde
~ Illusion is the first of all pleasures. ~ Oscar Wilde
~ Simple pleasures are always the last refuge of the complex ~ Oscar Wilde
~ The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one. ~ Oscar Wilde
~ Questions are never indiscreet: answers sometimes are. ~ Oscar Wilde
~ In examinations, the foolish ask questions the wise cannot answer. ~ Oscar Wilde
~ The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. ~ Oscar Wilde
~ Education is... [A process] which makes one rogue cleverer than another. ~ Oscar Wilde
~ The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth. ~ Oscar Wilde
~ Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands. ~ Oscar Wilde
Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief ~ Oscar Wilde
~ Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities. ~ Oscar Wilde
~ Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a mans last romance. ~ Oscar Wilde
~ The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life. ~ Oscar Wilde
~ A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction. ~ Oscar Wilde
~ I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works. ~ Oscar Wilde
~ I like men who have a future and women who have a past ~ Oscar Wilde
~ 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. ~ Oscar Wilde
~ Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes, they forgive them ~ Oscar Wilde
~ When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her. ~ Oscar Wilde
~ Art is the most intense mode of invidualism that the world has known. ~ Oscar Wilde
~ [A] ny fool can make history, but it takes a genius to write it. ~ Oscar Wilde
~ When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her. ~ Oscar Wilde
~ Who, being loved, is poor? ~ Oscar Wilde
~ Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us. ~ Oscar Wilde
Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us. ~ Oscar Wilde
~ Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing. ~ Oscar Wilde
~ Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. ~ Oscar Wilde
~ True friends stab you in the front ~ Oscar Wilde
~ It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution ~ Oscar Wilde
~ The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself. ~ Oscar Wilde
~ Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. ~ Oscar Wilde
~ Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. ~ Oscar Wilde
~ A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on. ~ Oscar Wilde
~ Scepticism is the beginning of Faith. ~ Oscar Wilde
~ The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing ~ Oscar Wilde
~ It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances ~ Oscar Wilde
~ It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. ~ Oscar Wilde
~ It's absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. ~ Oscar Wilde
~ In England … education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square. ~ Oscar Wilde
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. ~ Oscar Wilde
~ A kiss may ruin a human life. ~ Oscar Wilde
~ In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane. ~ Oscar Wilde
~ One can give a really unbiased opinion only about things that do not interest one ~ Oscar Wilde
~ The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read ~ Oscar Wilde
~ There is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. ~ Oscar Wilde
~ Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. ~ Oscar Wilde
~ Illusion is the first of all pleasures. ~ Oscar Wilde
~ An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young ~ Oscar Wilde
~ Questions are never indiscreet: answers sometimes are ~ Oscar Wilde
~ To get back to my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable ~ Oscar Wilde
~ To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies ~ Oscar Wilde
~ The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth. ~ Oscar Wilde
~ Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes. ~ Oscar Wilde
~ Experience is the name we give to our past mistakes ~ Oscar Wilde
To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's life. It is no less than a denial of the soul ~ Oscar Wilde
~ Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. ~ Oscar Wilde
~ Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go ~ Oscar Wilde
~ Scepticism is the beginning of Faith. ~ Oscar Wilde
~ Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures ~ Oscar Wilde
~ I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works. ~ Oscar Wilde
~ One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. If she tells that, she'll tell anything. ~ Oscar Wilde
~ To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance ~ Oscar Wilde
~ Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree ~ Oscar Wilde
~ When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs. ~ Oscar Wilde
~ Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter. ~ Oscar Wilde
~ A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction. ~ Oscar Wilde
~ Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat. ~ Oscar Wilde