Quotes from Oscar Wilde
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
- Oscar Wilde
Alas, I am dying beyond my means.
- Oscar Wilde
There is no such thing as a heterosexual male, only men who haven't met Oscar Wilde yet.
- Oscar Wilde
Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.
- Oscar Wilde
When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.
- Oscar Wilde
The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.
- Oscar Wilde
Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.
- Oscar Wilde
Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.
- Oscar Wilde
The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.
- Oscar Wilde
Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men.
- Oscar Wilde
There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God.
- Oscar Wilde
Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.
- Oscar Wilde