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Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
By Oscar Wilde
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
By Oscar Wilde
Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
By Oscar Wilde
Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
By Oscar Wilde
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
By Oscar Wilde
No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide. I can quite understand how any ordinary critic would be strongly prejudiced against a work that was accompanied by a premature and unnecessary panegyric from the publisher. A publisher is simply a useful middle-man. It is not for him to anticipate the verdict of criticism.
By Oscar Wilde
Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.
By Oscar Wilde
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
By Oscar Wilde
In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the home of the vivisect, in spite of Keble College, and the tramways, and the sporting prints, Oxford still remains the most beautiful thing in England, and nowhere else are life and art so exquisitely blended, so perfectly made one.
By Oscar Wilde
It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.
By Oscar Wilde
In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
By Oscar Wilde
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
By Oscar Wilde
Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
By Oscar Wilde
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
By Oscar Wilde
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
By Oscar Wilde
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
By Oscar Wilde
While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy; the second is perfection, which all should aim at.
By Oscar Wilde
Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others.
By Oscar Wilde
Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.
By Oscar Wilde
They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.
By Oscar Wilde
There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
By Oscar Wilde