Quotes from Oscar Wilde
Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.
- Oscar Wilde
There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.
- Oscar Wilde
Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They're the only things we can pay.
- Oscar Wilde
If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.
- Oscar Wilde
It is very wrong to kill any one[.] Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!
- Oscar Wilde
Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar
- Oscar Wilde
Even you are not rich enough, Sir Robert, to buy back your past. No man is
- Oscar Wilde
I have given away my whole soul to some one who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day.
- Oscar Wilde
The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world's sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.
- Oscar Wilde
I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.
- Oscar Wilde
I don't like compliments and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.
- Oscar Wilde
When I was young I thought money was the most important thing in life, now that I'm old - I know it is!
- Oscar Wilde