Quotes from Oscar Wilde
Mrs. Allonby: They say, Lady Hunstanton, that when good Americans die they go to Paris.Lady Hunstanton: Indeed? And when bad Americans die, where do they go to?Lord Illingworth: Oh, they go to America.
- Oscar Wilde
A man who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in that position.
- Oscar Wilde
And down the long and silent street,The dawn, with silver-sandaled feet,Crept like a frightened girl.
- Oscar Wilde
Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them?
- Oscar Wilde
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
- Oscar Wilde
Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.
- Oscar Wilde
I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.
- Oscar Wilde
In married life three is company and two none.
- Oscar Wilde
Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
- Oscar Wilde
Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses.
- Oscar Wilde
How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
- Oscar Wilde
After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.
- Oscar Wilde