Quotes from Oscar Wilde
Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.
- Oscar Wilde
The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.
- Oscar Wilde
When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand.
- Oscar Wilde
In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs for ever and ever.
- Oscar Wilde
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
- Oscar Wilde
Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.
- Oscar Wilde
Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
- Oscar Wilde
The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.
- Oscar Wilde
one pale woman all alone, The daylight kissing her wan hair, Loitered beneath the gas lamps' flare, With lips of flame and heart of stone.
- Oscar Wilde
The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.
- Oscar Wilde
Women have become so highly educated... that nothing should surprise us nowadays, except happy marriages.
- Oscar Wilde
I have nothing to declare except my genius.
- Oscar Wilde