Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are.
- Oscar Wilde
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
- Oscar Wilde
To become the spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
- Oscar Wilde
Pessimist - one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
- Oscar Wilde
A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.
- Oscar Wilde
It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
A true gentlemen is one who is never unintentionally rude.
- Oscar Wilde
Only the shallow know themselves.
- Oscar Wilde
It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.
- Oscar Wilde
It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons.
- Oscar Wilde
My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.
- Oscar Wilde
Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly.
- Oscar Wilde
Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
- Oscar Wilde
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