1856-1900, British Author, Wit
Those whom the gods love grow young.
Oscar Wilde – [Youth]
Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.
Oscar Wilde – [Despair]
Time is waste of money.
Oscar Wilde – [Time and Time Management]
To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.
Oscar Wilde – [Goodness]
To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
Oscar Wilde – [Suffering]
To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
Oscar Wilde – [Inaction]
To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.
Oscar Wilde – [History and Historians]
To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you.
Oscar Wilde – [Tact and Tactfulness]
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Oscar Wilde – [Life and Living]
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune… to lose both seems like carelessness.
Oscar Wilde – [Parents and Parenting]
To love oneself is the beginning of a life long romance.
Oscar Wilde – [Romance and Romanticism]
To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist — the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.
Oscar Wilde – [Cooking]
To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing.
Oscar Wilde – [Socializing and Socialism]
Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin, but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building.
Oscar Wilde – [Marriage]
Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.
Oscar Wilde – [Vulgarity]
Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people.
Oscar Wilde – [Vulgarity]
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde – [Goals]
We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.
Oscar Wilde – [Function]
We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.
Oscar Wilde – [Experience]
We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
Oscar Wilde – [Language]
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