Quotes from Oscar Wilde
(A country where) the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
- Oscar Wilde
At every single moment of one's life, one is going to be no less than what one has been.
- Oscar Wilde
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
- Oscar Wilde
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.
- Oscar Wilde
As a rule, I think they are quite impossible. Geniuses talk so much, don't they? Such a bad habit! And they are always thinking about themselves, when I want them to be thinking about me.
- Oscar Wilde
If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.
- Oscar Wilde
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.
- Oscar Wilde
Love is like a war; easy to start but hard to end and you never know where it might take you.
- Oscar Wilde
Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.
- Oscar Wilde
To most of us the real life is the life we do not lead.
- Oscar Wilde
A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.
- Oscar Wilde