Quote

I can believe anything provided it is quite incredible.

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
Quite
Belief
Inspirational
Anything
Believe
Provided
Incredible
Imagination

More quotes by Oscar Wilde

Image
If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.
Oscar Wilde
Image
There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People.
Oscar Wilde
Image
America is one long expectoration.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Millionaire models are rare enough but model millionaires are rarer still!
Oscar Wilde
Image
It is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologize to one in private for what they have written against one in public.
Oscar Wilde
Image
More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.
Oscar Wilde
Image
His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn.
Oscar Wilde
Image
My friend is not allowed to go out today. I sit by his side and read him passages from his own life. They fill him with surprise. Everyone should keep someone else's diary I sometimes suspect you of keeping mine.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Sphinxes without secrets.
Oscar Wilde
Image
We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I wanted to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world… And so, indeed, I went out, and so I lived. My only mistake was that I confined myself so exclusively to the trees of what seemed to me the sun-lit side of the garden, and shunned the other side for its shadow and its gloom.
Oscar Wilde
Image
A process which makes one rogue cleverer than another.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The only thing worse than quoting me, is not quoting me
Oscar Wilde
Image
My dear Arthur, I never talk scandal. I only talk gossip. What is the difference between scandal and gossip? Oh! Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
Oscar Wilde
Image
LADY BRACKNELL Algernon is an extremely, I may almost say an ostentatiously, eligible young man. He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more can one desire?
Oscar Wilde
Image
A grapefruit is just a lemon that saw an opportunity and took advantage of it.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Never so sweet a repast as the Reaper's when you tread upon the threshold of a Quiznos.
Oscar Wilde