I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.
OSCAR WILDEI choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.
OSCAR WILDEWhen one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one’s self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
OSCAR WILDEQuotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
OSCAR WILDEAlways forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
OSCAR WILDEIt takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.
OSCAR WILDEAll women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.
OSCAR WILDEWomen are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
OSCAR WILDEWhenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
OSCAR WILDEA man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.
OSCAR WILDELaughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.
OSCAR WILDEYes: 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 WILDEThe nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.
OSCAR WILDEOnly dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
OSCAR WILDEThe mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
OSCAR WILDEChildren begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
OSCAR WILDEThe books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
OSCAR WILDE