Quote

Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.

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
Obvious
Except
Wonderful
Funny
Women
Everything
Sarcastic
Things
Discover
Instinct

More quotes by Oscar Wilde

Image
I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I have been right, Basil, haven’t I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare’s plays? Lips that Shakespeare taught to speak have whispered their secret in my ear. I have had the arms of Rosalind around me, and kissed Juliet on the mouth.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Lord Darlington (LD): I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules. Lady Windemere (LW): If we had 'hard-and-fast rules' we would find life much simpler. LD: You allow of no exceptions? LW: None! LD: Ah, what a fascinating Puritan you are, LW. LW: The adjective was unnecessary, LD.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Dear little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Early in life she had discovered the important truth that nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion and by a series of reckless escapades, half of them quite harmless, she had acquired all the privileges of a personality.
Oscar Wilde
Image
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
Oscar Wilde
Image
JACK Your duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNON My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.
Oscar Wilde
Image
If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Good heavens, I suppose a man may eat his own muffins in his own garden. But you have just said it was perfectly heartless to eat muffins! I said it was perfectly heartless of YOU under the circumstances. That is a very different thing. That may be, but the muffins are the same!
Oscar Wilde
Image
Psycholog­y is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much
Oscar Wilde
Image
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
Oscar Wilde
Image
In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Authority is quite degrading.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Hatred is blind, as well as love.
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