Oscar Wilde: Quotes about people (page 3)

“Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous.”

“I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.”

“Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.”

“I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can’t go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that.”

“High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.”

“The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.”

“One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.”

“If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern)”

“Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.”

“Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.”

“Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.”

“My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.”

“Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations.”

“The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.”

“Neither at things, nor at people should one look. Only in mirrors should one look, for mirrors do but show us masks.”