Oscar Wilde

(244 votes)   And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats, none knew so well as I: for he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(241 votes)   A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(234 votes)   It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(227 votes)   Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(215 votes)   My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(208 votes)   What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(200 votes)   I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(190 votes)   And now, I am dying beyond my means. [Sipping champagne on his deathbed]

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(188 votes)   In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a social manifesto in its mouth much bigger than itself.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(169 votes)   Lord Illingworth: All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. Mrs. Allonby: No man does. That is his.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(168 votes)   Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(165 votes)   Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(161 votes)   America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(159 votes)   For his mourners will be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(158 votes)   Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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