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“It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.”

Oscar Wilde book The Model Millionaire

The Model Millionaire (1912)

“I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.”

“All great ideas are dangerous.”

“The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Jack: “Gwendolen, wait here for me.”
Gwendolen: “If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

“You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter - a girl brought up with the utmost care - to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel?”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

“Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.”

“But what world says that [I'm wicked]? It can only be the next world. This world and I are on excellent terms.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Lady Bracknell, Act III
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)

“Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.”

“The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.”

“One world was not enough for two like me and you.”

“Time is a waste of money.”

Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young (1894)
Source: Complete Works of Oscar Wilde

“Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.”

“Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life”

“It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“If we're always guided by other people's thoughts, what's the point in having our own?”

“Lady Bracknell. Good afternoon, dear Algernon, I hope you are behaving very well.

Algernon. I’m feeling very well, Aunt Augusta.

Lady Bracknell. That’s not quite the same thing. In fact the two things rarely go together.”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

“we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“How long could you love a woman who didn't love you, Cecil?
A woman who didn't love me? Oh, all my life!”

Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere's Fan

Source: Lady Windermere's Fan