oscar wilde quotes

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.
-- Oscar Wilde

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to
act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

-- Oscar Wilde, British playwright, poet, and novelist (1854-1900)

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon
to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde

The English country gentleman galloping after a fox -- the unspeakable
in full pursuit of the uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde, "A Woman of No Importance"

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would
say that it had merely been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde

Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely,
if ever, do they forgive them.
- Oscar Wilde

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

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

-- Oscar Wilde

In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one
wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde

Bernard Shaw is an excellent man; he has not an enemy in the world, and
none of his friends like him either.
-- Oscar Wilde

One should never make one's debut in a scandal. One should reserve that to
give interest to one's old age.

-- Oscar Wilde

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

It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it.
-- Oscar Wilde

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

"Why was I born with such contemporaries?"

-- Oscar Wilde

Women give to men the very gold of their lives. Possibly; but they
invariably want it back in such very small change.
-- Oscar Wilde

Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism
in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with
the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar Wilde

Women treat us just as humanity treats its gods. They worship us and are
always bothering us to do something for them.
-- Oscar Wilde

"The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception a neccessity."
- Oscar Wilde

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to
time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde, "The Critic as Artist"