Oscar Wilde Quotes

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde

Good, Advice, Pass

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

Love, Woman, Her

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
Oscar Wilde

Art, Through, Perfection

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
Oscar Wilde

Science, End, Begin

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
Oscar Wilde

Play, Stage, Badly

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Oscar Wilde

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
Oscar Wilde

Help, Read, Determines

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde

Two, Choice, Both

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
Oscar Wilde

God, Ability, Creating

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.
Oscar Wilde

America, President, Forever

There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
Oscar Wilde

Woman, Nothing, Married

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

Women, Men, Between

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
Oscar Wilde

Nothing, Soul, Senses

I have nothing to declare except my genuis.
Oscar Wilde

Nothing, Except, Declare

Why was I born with such contemporaries?
Oscar Wilde

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.
Oscar Wilde

Food, Sick, Dead

Only the shallow know themselves.
Oscar Wilde

Themselves, Shallow

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
Oscar Wilde

Illusion, Pleasures

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
Oscar Wilde

Genius, Paid, Ridicule

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

Stupid, Whenever, Motives

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
Oscar Wilde

Good, Society, Same

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar Wilde

Show, Books, Shame

All art is quite useless.
Oscar Wilde

Art, Quite, Useless

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
Oscar Wilde

Music, Good, Bad

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Oscar Wilde

Often, Vulgar, Convincing

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Dramatist

Born: October 16, 1854

Died: November 30, 1900

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