Oscar Wilde

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

Oscar Wilde

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Oscar Wilde

Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.

Oscar Wilde

Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London.

Oscar Wilde

Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.

Oscar Wilde

For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.

Oscar Wilde

For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.

Oscar Wilde

For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about its comedies, and its tragedies seem to culminate in farce.

Oscar Wilde

Freedom, individualism and being yourself so long as you don’t hurt another’s physical person or property: The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself.

Oscar Wilde

Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.

Oscar Wilde