These are some assorted quotes from Oscar Wilde.
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more
annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
-- Oscar Wilde
Young men want to be faithful and are not;
-- Oscar Wilde
old men want to be faithless and cannot.
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
I have the simplest tastes, I am always satisfied with the best.
-- Oscar Wilde
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde
A kiss may ruin a human life.
-- Oscar Wilde
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
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
-- Oscar Wilde
A man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde
Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.
-- Oscar Wilde
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde
Duty is what one expects from others.
-- 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
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde
I can resist everything except temptation.
-- Oscar Wilde
I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
-- Oscar Wilde
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
-- Oscar Wilde
Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
-- Oscar Wilde
It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
-- Oscar Wilde
It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about, nowadays, saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.
-- Oscar Wilde
It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.
-- Oscar Wilde
Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.
-- Oscar Wilde
Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.
-- Oscar Wilde
My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.
-- Oscar Wilde
No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
-- Oscar Wilde
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde
Punctuality is the thief of time.
-- Oscar Wilde
Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.
-- Oscar Wilde
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde
The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
-- Oscar Wilde
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
-- Oscar Wilde
There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
-- Oscar Wilde
To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.
-- Oscar Wilde
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
-- Oscar Wilde
Woman are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
-- Oscar Wilde
Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
-- Oscar Wilde
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
-- Oscar Wilde
Yet each man kills the thing he loves, from all let this be heard. Some does it with a bitter look, some with a flattering word. The coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.
-- Oscar Wilde
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what 'fiction' means.
-- Oscar Wilde