Oscar Wilde

I sometimes think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances

Nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude

Experience is the name that everyone gives to his mistakes.

Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex.

Only the shallow know themselves.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word. The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword!

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

A Cynic is one who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

I don't desire to change anything in England except the weather.

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

Show respect for age. Drink good scotch for a change. The old believe everything: the middle-aged suspect everything: the young know everything.

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that, would tell one anything.

Thirty-five is a very attractive age, London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

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.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

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

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

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

Success is a science if you have the conditions, you get the result.

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

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