Oscar Wilde Quotes

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But I like talking to a brick wall — it’s the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!

Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan

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Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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The basis of every scandal is an immoral certainty.

Oscar Wilde

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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefit of their experience.

Oscar Wilde

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Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.

Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

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No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime. Vulgarity is the conduct of others.

Oscar Wilde, Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young

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Most people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one’s self over poetry is an honour.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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The true artist is the man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself.

Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism

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By persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.

Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

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My husband is a sort of promissory note. I am tired of meeting him.

Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance

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All men are married women’s property. That is the only true definition of what married women’s property really is.

Oscar Wilde

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It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man’s deeper nature is soon found out.

Oscar Wilde, Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young

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One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

Oscar Wilde, Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young

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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.

Oscar Wilde, Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young

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

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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In married life three is company, two is none.

Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest