Oscar Wilde Quotes

Oscar Wilde

Woman's first duty in life is to her dressmaker. What the second duty is no one has yet discovered.

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I have nothing to declare but my genius.

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God's eternal laws are kind-and break the heart of stone.

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The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.

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Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

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Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

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London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.

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A mans face is his autobiography. A women's face is her work of fiction.

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

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It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

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Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

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Ambition is the last refuge of failure.

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A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth glancing at.

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Art never expresses anything but itself.

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Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

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Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.

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Nothing that actually occurs is of the smallest importance.

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Punctuality is the thief of time.

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I have nothing to declare except my genuis.

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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.

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If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself you rise from the table richer, and conscious that a high ideal has for a moment touched and sanctified your days.

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Art is the most intense mode of invidualism that the world has known.

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The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

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To get back one's youth, one has merely to repeat one's follies.

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