Oscar Wilde Quotes

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

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

The basis of every scandal is an immoral certainty.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In married life three is company, two is none.