172 Quotes By Oscar Wilde


Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
Oscar Wilde on teacher

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
Oscar Wilde on technology

Children begin by loving their parents after a time they judge them rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde on time

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 on time

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
Oscar Wilde on travel

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Oscar Wilde on truth

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde on truth

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
Oscar Wilde on war

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Oscar Wilde on women

Women are made to be loved, not understood.
Oscar Wilde on women

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
Oscar Wilde on women

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
Oscar Wilde on women

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

Men marry because they are tired women, because they are curious both are disappointed.
Oscar Wilde on women

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
Oscar Wilde on women

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
Oscar Wilde on women

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
Oscar Wilde on work

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
Oscar Wilde on work

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
Oscar Wilde on work

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
Oscar Wilde on work