Oscar Wilde Quotes

Education is...[A process] which makes one rogue cleverer than another.

Oscar Wilde

She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.

Oscar Wilde

The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.

Oscar Wilde

An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young

Oscar Wilde

Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.

Oscar Wilde

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go

Oscar Wilde

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a mans last romance.

Oscar Wilde

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

Oscar Wilde

When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

Oscar Wilde

It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing

Oscar Wilde

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

Oscar Wilde

I like men who have a future and women who have a past

Oscar Wilde

The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.

Oscar Wilde

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Oscar Wilde

Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot.

Oscar Wilde