Quote

I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result.

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
Never
Result
Saws
Anybody
Results
Littles
Little
Take
Dress
Long
Dresses

More quotes by Oscar Wilde

Image
Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry.
Oscar Wilde
Image
But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly.
Oscar Wilde
Image
She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1.322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26.911 words. The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
Oscar Wilde
Image
When people talk to me about the weather, I always feel they mean something else.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the conscientiousness of the illiterate give us accurate and prosaic details. . .
Oscar Wilde
Image
Everyone should keep someone else's diary.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much
Oscar Wilde
Image
To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.
Oscar Wilde
Image
There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.
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
So lets knock a couple back and make some noise
Oscar Wilde
Image
You might see nothing in him. I see everything in him.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Anybody can sympathise with all the sufferings of the pal, nevertheless it involves an extremely great mother nature to sympathise by using a friend's achievement.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.
Oscar Wilde
Image
A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime.
Oscar Wilde