Quotes by Oscar Wilde

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

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life now that I am old I know that it is.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

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

Society exists only as a mental concept in the real world there are only individuals.

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise”

“Punctuality is the thief of time”

“Time is a waste of money.”

“Punctuality is the thief of time.”

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”

“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”

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

“We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.”