Oscar Wilde Quotes

My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.

Oscar Wilde

America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself.

Oscar Wilde

Si no podéis disfrutar leyendo un libro repetidas veces, de nada sirve leerlo ni una sola vez.

Oscar Wilde

The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as we all should live-- undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet. They never bring ruin upon others, nor ever receive it from alien hands. Your rank and wealth, Henry; my brains, such as they are-- my art, whatever it may be worth; Dorian Gray's good looks-- we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly.

Oscar Wilde

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

Oscar Wilde

As for believing things, I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

Oscar Wilde

I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.

Oscar Wilde

I drink to separate my body from my soul.

Oscar Wilde

So with curious eyes and sick surmiseWe watched him day by day,And wondered if each one of usWould end the self-same way,For none can tell to what red HellHis sightless soul may stray.

Oscar Wilde

I'm a man of simple tastes. I'm always satisfied with the best.

Oscar Wilde

Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

Oscar Wilde

She lives the poetry she cannot write.

Oscar Wilde

Hearts Live By Being Wounded

Oscar Wilde

Now, I have always wanted to agree with Lady Bracknell that there is no earthly use for the upper and lower classes unless they set each other a good example. But I shouldn't pretend that the consensus itself was any of my concern. It was absurd and slightly despicable, in the first decade of Thatcher and Reagan, to hear former and actual radicals intone piously against 'the politics of confrontation.' I suppose that, if this collection has a point, it is the desire of one individual to see the idea of confrontation kept alive.

Christopher Hitchens

Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It's perfectly childish to be in mourning for a man who is actually staying a whole week with you in your house as a guest. I call it grotesque.

Oscar Wilde

She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.

Oscar Wilde