Oscar Wilde

As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.

Oscar Wilde

As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.

Oscar Wilde

As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves and rarely understood others. Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

Oscar Wilde

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

Oscar Wilde

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.

Oscar Wilde

As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.

Oscar Wilde

As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn’t become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of his friends like him.

Oscar Wilde

At every single moment of one’s life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been.

Oscar Wilde

Bad manners make a journalist.

Oscar Wilde

Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one’s reason; bad people stir one’s imagination.

Oscar Wilde