This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.-- Oscar Wilde
"Pleasure is nature's test, her sign of approval."-- Oscar Wilde
"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative."-- Oscar Wilde
"Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex."-- Oscar Wilde
In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.-- Oscar Wilde
The advantage of emotions is that they lead us astray.-- Oscar Wilde
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.-- Oscar Wilde
"It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution."-- Oscar Wilde
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."-- Oscar Wilde
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.-- Oscar Wilde
"America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up."-- Oscar Wilde
"Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived."-- Oscar Wilde
The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.-- Oscar Wilde
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.-- Oscar Wilde
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
-- Oscar Wilde
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.-- Oscar Wilde
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.-- Oscar Wilde
Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.-- Oscar Wilde
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.-- Oscar Wilde
In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.-- Oscar Wilde
"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious."-- Oscar Wilde
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.-- Oscar Wilde
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.-- Oscar Wilde
Ah! don't say that you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.-- Oscar Wilde
"The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet's dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality."-- Oscar Wilde
On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.-- Oscar Wilde
"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live."-- Oscar Wilde
Women treat us just as humanity treats its gods. They worship us and are always bothering us to do something for them.-- Oscar Wilde
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."-- Oscar Wilde
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.-- Oscar Wilde
Everybody is clever nowadays. You cannot go anywhere without meeting clever people. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left.-- Oscar Wilde
Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.-- Oscar Wilde
There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.-- Oscar Wilde
we make happen the stuff we fear will happen
"I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over."-- Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest)