To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
– Oscar Wilde
The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to encourage in others.
– Oscar Wilde
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
– Oscar Wilde
I may have said the same thing before… But my explanation, I am sure, will always be different.
– Oscar Wilde
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
– Oscar Wilde
Any fool can make history, but it takes a genius to write it.
– Oscar Wilde
Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses — once!
– Oscar Wilde
The longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us.
– Oscar Wilde
It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about now a days saying things against one, behind one’s back, that are absolutely and entirely true.
– Oscar Wilde
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
– Oscar Wilde
Of course I have played outdoor games. I once played dominoes in an open air cafe in Paris.
– Oscar Wilde
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
– Oscar Wilde
I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.
– Oscar Wilde
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
– Oscar Wilde
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
– Oscar Wilde
Women are never disarmed by compliments; men always are.
– Oscar Wilde
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught.
– Oscar Wilde
She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.
– Oscar Wilde
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
– Oscar Wilde
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
– Oscar Wilde