Oscar Wilde's Quoteshttp://www.cmgww.com/historic/wilde/Life:
Life is much too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.
Vera, of The NihilistsLife is never fair...And perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
An Ideal HusbandWe are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.
The Duchess of PaduaThe world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
Love:One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
A Woman of No ImportanceTo love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
An Ideal HusbandA kiss may ruin a human life.
A Woman of No ImportanceA man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
The Picture of Dorian GrayYoung men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Men:Men become old, but they never become good.
Lady Windermere's FanI delight in men over seventy, they always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.
A Woman of No Importance.A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain.
Lady Windermere's Fan.Nowadays all the married men live like bachelors and all the bachelors live like married men.
The Picture of Dorian GrayI don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.
Lady Windermere's Fan
Women:It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing.
Lady Windermere's FanI don't know that women are always rewarded for being charming. I think they are usually punished for it!
An Ideal HusbandMy dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth, I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you said it, which is much more important.
A Woman of No ImportanceWomen give to men the very gold of their lives. But they invariably want it back in such very small change.
The Picture of Dorian GrayI am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.
The Picture of Dorian GrayI prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to.
Lady Windermere's Fan
People:The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
The Soul of Man Under SocialismMost men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualification.
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime