Best of the Oscar Wilde Quotes
– “A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.”
– “A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.”
– “A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.”
– “A man can’t be to careful in his choice of enemies.”
– “A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is usually plain.”
– “A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.”
– “A poet can survive everything but a misprint.”
– “A really well made buttonhole is the only link between art and nature.”
– “A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
– “A true friend stabs you in the front.”
– “A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.”
– “Alas, I am dying beyond my means.”
– “All art is quite useless.”
– “All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.”
– “All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.”
– “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
– “Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– “Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.”
– “America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.”
– “America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.”
– “An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”
– “Anybody can be good in the country; there are no temptations there.”
– “Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
– “Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.”
– “Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.”
– “As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.”
– “As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.”
– “As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn’t become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of his friends like him.”
– “At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.”