Quotes from Oscar Wilde
Arguments are to be avoided, they are always vulgar and often convincing.
- Oscar Wilde
You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.
- Oscar Wilde
Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.
- Oscar Wilde
With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.
- Oscar Wilde
I hope, Cecily, I shall not offend you if I state quite frankly and openly that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection.
- Oscar Wilde
I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws.
- Oscar Wilde
Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.
- Oscar Wilde
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
- Oscar Wilde
Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.
- Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde was suing the Marquis of Queensbury in 1895 for libel accusing Wilde of homosexuality Counsel: Have you ever adored a young man madly? Wilde: I have never given adoration to anyone except myself.
- Oscar Wilde
They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.
- Oscar Wilde
Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?
- Oscar Wilde