Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to
act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde, British playwright, poet, and novelist (1854-1900)
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to
act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde, British playwright, poet, and novelist (1854-1900)
Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.
-- Oscar Wilde
Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely,
if ever, do they forgive them.
- Oscar Wilde
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox -- the unspeakable
in full pursuit of the uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde, "A Woman of No Importance"
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon
to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde
There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the
other is to read Pope.
-- Oscar Wilde
I sometimes think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
-- Oscar Wilde
The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any
use to oneself.
-- Oscar Wilde
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would
say that it had merely been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde
In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one
wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde
He hadn't a single redeeming vice.
-- Oscar Wilde
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more
annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
-- Oscar Wilde
Bernard Shaw is an excellent man; he has not an enemy in the world, and
none of his friends like him either.
-- Oscar Wilde
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
-- Oscar Wilde
There are two ways of disliking art. One is to dislike it. The other is
to like it rationally.
-- Oscar Wilde
It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it.
-- Oscar Wilde
One should never make one's debut in a scandal. One should reserve that to
give interest to one's old age.
-- Oscar Wilde
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly
the same opinion.
-- Oscar Wilde
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more
annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
-- Oscar Wilde
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be
wrong.
-- Oscar Wilde
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more
annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
-- Oscar Wilde
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
-- Oscar Wilde
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
-- Oscar Wilde
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
-- Oscar Wilde
It is most dangerous nowadays for a husband to pay any attention to his
wife in public. It always makes people think that he beats her when
they're alone. The world has grown so suspicious of anything that looks
like a happy married life.
-- Oscar Wilde
Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.
-- Oscar Wilde