Oscar Wilde quotes

When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.
Oscar Wilde

It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about, nowadays, saying things against one
behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.
Oscar Wilde

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

It is not the perfect but the imperfect who have need of love.
Oscar Wilde

Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after
dinner.
Oscar Wilde

I don't want money. It is only people who pay their bills who want that, and I never pay
mine.
Oscar Wilde

Punctuality is the thief of time - I am not punctual myself, but I do like punctuality in others.
Oscar Wilde

Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
Oscar Wilde

Moderation is a sensible thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
Oscar Wilde

Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.
Oscar Wilde

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
Oscar Wilde

The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
Oscar Wilde

Women are not meant to judge us, but to forgive us when we need forgiveness. Pardon, not
punishment, is their mission.
Oscar Wilde

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
Oscar Wilde

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

Life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong
people. There is a grotesque horror about its comedies, and its tragedies seem to culminate
in farce.
Oscar Wilde

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or nation.
Oscar Wilde

One should never pay too high a price for any sensation.
Oscar Wilde

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being
talked about.
Oscar Wilde

One should believe evil of everyone, until, of course, people are found out to be good. But
that requires a great deal of investigation nowadays.
Oscar Wilde

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too
late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
Oscar Wilde

It is personalities, not principles, that move the age.
Oscar Wilde

Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of
how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
Oscar Wilde

When men give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming.
Oscar Wilde

Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly.
Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind
over morals.
Oscar Wilde

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