Oscar Wilde Quotations

This Oscar Wilde Quotations web page brings a hand picked selection of the best sayings, observations, musings, witticisms of the incredibly intelligent gay Irishman












We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

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Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

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A true friend stabs you in the front.

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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

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The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

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As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

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Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

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A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.

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There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

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A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

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I can resist everything except temptation.

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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

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One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
(Margaret Thatcher is oft quoted as saying the same thing, as if she thought of it first)




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