Oscar Wilde Quotes

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Oscar Wilde

Profession : Poet

Birth : October 16, 1854

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

Oscar Wilde

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

Oscar Wilde

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

Oscar Wilde

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

Oscar Wilde

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

Oscar Wilde

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

Oscar Wilde

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

Oscar Wilde

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

Oscar Wilde

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

Oscar Wilde

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Oscar Wilde

Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.

Oscar Wilde

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

Oscar Wilde

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

Oscar Wilde

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

Oscar Wilde

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

Oscar Wilde

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

Oscar Wilde

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

Oscar Wilde

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Oscar Wilde

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

Oscar Wilde

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

Oscar Wilde