Oscar Wilde Quotes

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

The only way a woman can ever reform her husband is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.

There is no such thing as a moral book or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read.

There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no on else has a right to blame us.

Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering.

When I think of all the harm the Bible has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.