Oscar Wilde

(358 votes)   The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(337 votes)   Pardon me, you are not engaged to any one. When you do become engaged to some one, I, or your father, should his health permit him, will inform you of the fact. An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant, as the case may be. It is hardly a matter that she could be allowed to arrange for herself.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(331 votes)   The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(321 votes)   The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(320 votes)   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
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(301 votes)   He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(301 votes)   Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(282 votes)   A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(274 votes)   The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(267 votes)   They are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(262 votes)   Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves -which is the same thing nowadays.

Oscar Wilde

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(261 votes)   The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(258 votes)   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
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(253 votes)   Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(249 votes)   How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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