Oscar Wilde

(118 votes)   One knows so well the popular idea of health. The English country gentleman galloping after a fox -- the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(118 votes)   She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(118 votes)   Where there is no extravagance there is no love, and where there is no love there is no understanding.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(117 votes)   A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(116 votes)   She is absolutely inadmissible into society. Many a woman has a past, but I am told that she has at least a dozen, and that they all fit.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(115 votes)   The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope. When the Verities become acrobats we can judge them.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(113 votes)   There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(112 votes)   For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(112 votes)   Who is that man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched him? Give him till tomorrow to confess, then hang him! -- hang him!

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(111 votes)   Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(111 votes)   We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(110 votes)   Bad manners make a journalist.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(110 votes)   Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(108 votes)   She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(107 votes)   If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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