Oscar Wilde Quotes - Page 8

Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

I have no objection to anyone’s sex life as long as they don’t practice it in the street and frighten the horses.

People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.

He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.

Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things.
That is exactly what things were originally made for.

I'm too old to know everything

Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman

I wish you would tell me your secret. To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

Women treat us [men] like humanity treats gods – they worship us and keep bothering us to do something.

Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!

For myself, the only immortality I desire is to invent a new sauce.

The only possible society is oneself. To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Punctuality is the thief of time

Time is a waste of money.

Una rosa se despertó en su sangre y ensombreció sus mejillas. Un agitado aliento separó los pétalos de sus labios, que temblaron. Sobre ella sopló algún viento sur de pasión y movió los delicados pliegos de su vestido

But somehow, I feel sure that if I lived in the country for six months, I should become so unsophisticated that no one would take the slightest notice of me.