Quote

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

Oscar Wilde

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
Author
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Dublin city
Oscar O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
Thoroughly
Persons
Person
Like
World

More quotes by Oscar Wilde

Image
The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror.
Oscar Wilde
Image
She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Only the unimaginative can fail to find a reason for drinking Champagne
Oscar Wilde
Image
A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten.
Oscar Wilde
Image
There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Millionaire models are rare enough but model millionaires are rarer still!
Oscar Wilde
Image
Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Oh, how I vainly wished to the bearded man in the sky that I was Neapolitan. Why? So I could bring in a fine Neapolitan pest control to help with Queensberry's problem before it gets out of hand.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.
Oscar Wilde
Image
To look at a thing is very different from seeing it.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in silver mirrors. Later on, one sees the Gorgon's head, and one suffers, because it does not turn one to stone.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The English country-gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
Oscar Wilde
Image
A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.
Oscar Wilde
Image
A woman's life revolves in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses.
Oscar Wilde
Image
My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
Oscar Wilde
Image
When people talk to me about the weather, I always feel they mean something else.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I beg your pardon I didn't recognise you - I've changed a lot.
Oscar Wilde
Image
But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins.
Oscar Wilde