Oscar Wilde

(83 votes)   One should never make one's debut with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(81 votes)   Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses -- once!

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(81 votes)   It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(81 votes)   Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(81 votes)   One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(81 votes)   What is said of a man is nothing. The point is, who says it.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(81 votes)   When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(80 votes)   A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(80 votes)   Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(80 votes)   My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(80 votes)   People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect -- simply a confession of failures.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(78 votes)   Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(78 votes)   No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide. I can quite understand how any ordinary critic would be strongly prejudiced against a work that was accompanied by a premature and unnecessary panegyric from the publisher. A publisher is simply a useful middle-man. It is not for him to anticipate the verdict of criticism.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(78 votes)   Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(78 votes)   Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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