“I hope you hair curls naturally, does it?
Yes, darling, with a little help from others.”
Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest
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@xy, member from Sept. 25, 2023“The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.”
Oscar Wilde book Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories
Source: Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories
“Conscience makes egotists of us all.”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“For he who lives more lives than one
More deaths than one must die.”
Oscar Wilde book The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Pt. III, st. 22
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)
Source: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems
“A man who takes himself too seriously will find that no one else takes him seriously.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
“Experience is a question of instinct about life.”
Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere's Fan
Source: Lady Windermere's Fan
“I'm too old to know everything”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
J. M. Barrie The Admirable Crichton, Act I (1903).
Misattributed
Variant: I'm not young enough to know everything.
“We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me.”
Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest
“When good Americans die, they go to Paris"
"Where do bad Americans go?"
"They stay in America”
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Act I.
A Woman of No Importance (1893)
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Context: Mrs. Allonby: They say, Lady Hunstanton, that when good Americans die they go to Paris.
Lady Hunstanton: Indeed? And when bad Americans die, where do they go to?
Lord Illingworth: Oh, they go to America.
“In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
“My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet