Oscar Wilde: Trending quotes (page 20)

“I am always late on principle, my principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.”

“I never take any notice to what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.”

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

“Create yourself. Be yourself your poem.”

“The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.”

“Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.”

“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”

“I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result.”

“The best way to make children good is to make them happy.”

“Dear little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery.”

“The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.”

“I don't play accurately--any one can play accurately--but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.”

“Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.”

“I don’t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you.”

“Reported as Oscar Wilde's last words on his death bed…
This wallpaper is killing me. One of us has to go.”

“Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.”

“The number of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one’s clean linen in public.”

“I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.”

“But she is happiest alone. She is happiest alone.”