The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.
OSCAR WILDEThe public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
-
-
The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
OSCAR WILDE -
I don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.
OSCAR WILDE -
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.
OSCAR WILDE -
It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.
OSCAR WILDE -
Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.
OSCAR WILDE -
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
OSCAR WILDE -
If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.
OSCAR WILDE -
I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do – the day after.
OSCAR WILDE -
No good deed goes unpunished.
OSCAR WILDE -
Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
OSCAR WILDE -
Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
OSCAR WILDE -
Every woman is a rebel.
OSCAR WILDE -
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.
OSCAR WILDE -
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
OSCAR WILDE -
The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
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 -
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
OSCAR WILDE -
Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
OSCAR WILDE -
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
OSCAR WILDE -
A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.
OSCAR WILDE -
Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
OSCAR WILDE -
We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.
OSCAR WILDE -
Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.
OSCAR WILDE -
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
OSCAR WILDE -
I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.
OSCAR WILDE -
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
OSCAR WILDE