Oscar Wilde's Quotes

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

Oscar Wilde

igamy is having one husband or wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

Oscar Wilde

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience

Oscar Wilde

The past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.

Oscar Wilde

Art is the most intense mode of invidualism that the world has known.

Oscar Wilde

The proper school to learn art is not life but art.

Oscar Wilde

It is through… Art and Art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.

Oscar Wilde

Always forgive your enemies--nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

Oscar Wilde

Religion is a fashionable substitute for Belief.

Oscar Wilde

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Oscar Wilde

In England … education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

Oscar Wilde

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Oscar Wilde

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.

Oscar Wilde