This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
Oscar Wilde

Those whom the gods love grow young.
Oscar Wilde

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
Oscar Wilde

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
Oscar Wilde

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Oscar Wilde

True friends stab you in the front.
Oscar Wilde

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde

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