Oscar Wilde Quotes

It is much more difficult to talk about a thing than to do it. Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.

What is a cynic? A man, who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

You know what a woman’s curiosity is. Almost as great as a man’s!

Crying is the refuge of plain women, but the ruin of pretty ones.

Work is the curse of the drinking class.

Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn’t mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

Divorces are made in heaven.

“I was saying,” continued the Rocket, “I was saying – What was I saying?” “You were talking about yourself,” replied the Roman Candle. “Of course; I knew I was discussing some interesting subject when I was so rudely interrupted”

Questions are never indiscreet: answers sometimes are.