Quotes from Oscar Wilde
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
- Oscar Wilde
Never trust a woman who wears mauve, whatever her age may be, or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons.
- Oscar Wilde
She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.
- Oscar Wilde
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.
- Oscar Wilde
It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love.
- Oscar Wilde
There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.
- Oscar Wilde
If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.
- Oscar Wilde
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
- Oscar Wilde
You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.
- Oscar Wilde
It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of the world, whatever may be the explanation of the next.
- Oscar Wilde
I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all.
- Oscar Wilde