Quotes from Oscar Wilde
Football is all very well a good game for rough girls, but not for delicate boys.
- Oscar Wilde
The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence.
- Oscar Wilde
Where there is no extravagance there is no love, and where there is no love there is no understanding.
- Oscar Wilde
A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
- Oscar Wilde
Self denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.
- Oscar Wilde
There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.
- 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
The proper school to learn art is not life but art
- Oscar Wilde
Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.
- Oscar Wilde
The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth
- Oscar Wilde
Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.
- Oscar Wilde
There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.
- Oscar Wilde