What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
Oscar Wilde

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
Oscar Wilde

When good Americans die they go to Paris.
Oscar Wilde

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
Oscar Wilde

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
Oscar Wilde

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
Oscar Wilde

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

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
Oscar Wilde

Who, being loved, is poor?
Oscar Wilde

Why was I born with such contemporaries?
Oscar Wilde

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

Women are made to be loved, not understood.
Oscar Wilde

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

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

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
Oscar Wilde