The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.
OSCAR WILDEThe world is a stage and the play is badly cast.
OSCAR WILDEEducation is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
OSCAR WILDEI choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.
OSCAR WILDEHear no evil, speak no evil, and you won’t be invited to cocktail parties.
OSCAR WILDEIt is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.
OSCAR WILDEA thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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 WILDEAn idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
OSCAR WILDEA cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
OSCAR WILDEOne should always be in love. That’s the reason one should never marry.
OSCAR WILDEIt takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.
OSCAR WILDEThe nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.
OSCAR WILDELaughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.
OSCAR WILDEWith freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?
OSCAR WILDENothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
OSCAR WILDEHow 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