Oscar Wilde quotes

The thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never any good to oneself.
Oscar Wilde

A good reputation is one of the many annoyances to which I have never been subjected.
Oscar Wilde

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
That is all.
Oscar Wilde

The value of the telephone is the value of what two people have to say.
Oscar Wilde

I am sick of women who love me. Women who hate me are much more interesting.
Oscar Wilde

She'll never love you unless you are always at her heels; women like to be bothered.
Oscar Wilde

It is difficult not to be unjust to what one loves.
Oscar Wilde

I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself don't interest me. They have
not got the charm of novelty.
Oscar Wilde

I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.
Oscar Wilde

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
Oscar Wilde

Don't be conceited about your bad qualities. You may lose them as you grow old.
Oscar Wilde

I think that it is better to be beautiful than to be good. But on the other hand, no one is
more ready than I am to acknowledge that it is better to be good than to be ugly.
Oscar Wilde

I rely on you to misinterpret me.
Oscar Wilde

One should always play fairly - when one has the winning cards.
Oscar Wilde

Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange
surrender.
Oscar Wilde

The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of man is great.
Oscar Wilde

I don't like principles... I prefer prejudices.
Oscar Wilde

I don't know that women are always rewarded for being charming. I think they are usually
punished for it!
Oscar Wilde

The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.
Oscar Wilde

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything,
even our own gigantic intellects.
Oscar Wilde

A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.
Oscar Wilde

The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always
gives himself for doing them.
Oscar Wilde

Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to oblivion. They never paint what they see.
They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.
Oscar Wilde

The aim of most of our modern novelists seems to be, not to write good novels, but to write
novels that will do good.
Oscar Wilde

It is much more difficult to talk about a thing than to do it. In the sphere of actual life that is
of course obvious. Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
Oscar Wilde

To get back one's youth, one has merely to repeat one's follies.
Oscar Wilde

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