Quote

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.

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
Friendship
Conversation
Marriage
Relationship
Whether
Companionship
Bond
Confusion
Ultimately

More quotes by Oscar Wilde

Image
It is only very ugly or very beautiful women who ever hide their faces .
Oscar Wilde
Image
To live in this world is a rare thing most people just exist.
Oscar Wilde
Image
If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Oscar Wilde
Image
St. Paul's Loomed like a bubble o'er the town.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Youth is the only thing worth having.
Oscar Wilde
Image
A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.
Oscar Wilde
Image
A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious.
Oscar Wilde
Image
If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty
Oscar Wilde
Image
I gave my genius to my life, but my talent to my art.
Oscar Wilde
Image
My dear fellow, the truth isn’t quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas you have about the way to behave to a woman!
Oscar Wilde
Image
Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city.
Oscar Wilde
Image
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market place of any single thing.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.
Oscar Wilde