I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
[The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891]
Oscar Wilde quote We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language
Oscar Wilde quote Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
[The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891]
Oscar Wilde quote Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humour was provided to console him for what he is.
Imagination |
Oscar Wilde quoteThe only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Oscar Wilde quote Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
Success |
Oscar Wilde quoteOn refusing to make alterations to one of his plays: Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece?
Oscar Wilde quote We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde quote Biography
Anglo-Irish playwright and poet, noted for his sartorial wit. Lived 1854-1900.
