Oscar Wilde

Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.

Oscar Wilde

History is a lie commonly agreed upon.

Oscar Wilde

I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.

Oscar Wilde

I put all my genius into my life I put only my talent into my works.

Oscar Wilde

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

Oscar Wilde

Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they’re better.

Oscar Wilde

If God really wanted to punish, he’d answer all our prayers.

Oscar Wilde

If we men married the women we deserve, we should have a very bad time of it.

Oscar Wilde

If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.

Oscar Wilde

It is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth.

Oscar Wilde