Oscar Wilde Quotes

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
Oscar Wilde

Long, Woman, Her

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
Oscar Wilde

Friendship, Friends, Disliked

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
Oscar Wilde

Beautiful, Ugly, Object

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
Oscar Wilde

Attitude, Simply, Morality

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
Oscar Wilde

May, Lose, Both

Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
Oscar Wilde

Memory, Carry, Diary

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Oscar Wilde

Wrong, Whenever, Agree

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
Oscar Wilde

Money, Nothing, Rich

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
Oscar Wilde

Everything, Young, Old

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

True, Ambition, Progress

I am not young enough to know everything.
Oscar Wilde

Everything, Enough, Young

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
Oscar Wilde

Reason, Stand, Unfair

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar Wilde

Patriotism, Virtue, Vicious

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
Oscar Wilde

Person, Thoroughly

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
Oscar Wilde

Travel, Read, Train

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
Oscar Wilde

Failure, Ambition, Last

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
Oscar Wilde

Feeling, Artist, Portrait

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
Oscar Wilde

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
Oscar Wilde

Society, Talk, Here

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
Oscar Wilde

Teacher, Learning, Everybody

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Oscar Wilde

There is no sin except stupidity.
Oscar Wilde

Stupidity, Except, Sin

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
Oscar Wilde

Woman, Begins, Ends

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
Oscar Wilde

Art, Through, Perfection

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
Oscar Wilde

Help, Read, Determines

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Dramatist

Born: October 16, 1854

Died: November 30, 1900

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