“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes
1854 – 1900
Irish poet and playwright renowned for his razor-sharp wit, flamboyant style, and tragic life. Author of The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Importance of Being Earnest.
40 quotesAbout Oscar Wilde on Wikipedia
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“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.”
“The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.”
“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.”
“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”
“What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.”
“Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.”
“Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.”
“Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed.”
“Moderation is a fatal thing, Lady Hunstanton. Nothing succeeds like excess.”
“The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.”
“The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.”
