Oscar Wilde

There is a tiny yellow daffodil,<br /> The butterfly can see it from afar,<br /> Although one summer evening's dew could fill<br /> Its little cup twice over, ere the star<br /> Had called the lazy shepherd to his fold,<br /> And be no prodigal.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No <br />man does. That is his.

Tell them I've had a wonderful life.

Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked <br />about, and that is not being talked about.

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has <br />a longer shelf life.

Personally, I have a great admiration for stupidity.

The wild Bee reels from bough to bough<br /> With his furry coat and his gauzy wing,<br /> Now in a lily cup, and now<br /> Setting a jacinth bell a-swing,<br /> In his wandering.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be <br />wicked and being really good all the time. That would be <br />hypocrisy.

To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies

The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience, while the error of age is to believe experience is a substitute for intelligence

In the world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing

Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

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

I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

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

My wish isn't to mean everything to everyone but something to someone.

Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.

No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime

Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people

He hadn't a single redeeming vice.

The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.

If one tells the truth, one is sure sooner or later to be found out

Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

These days man knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.

Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.