Oscar Wilde Quotes

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

I am not young enough to know everything.

Everything popular is wrong.

In married life three is company and two none.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

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

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

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

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

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

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

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

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

Life is too important to be taken seriously.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

There is no sin except stupidity.