Quote

There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose.

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
Imagine
Feeling
Admiration
Funny
Stupidity
Feelings
Personally
Great
Fellow
People
Suppose
Fellows
Sort

More quotes by Oscar Wilde

Image
There is a fatality about good resolutions – that they are always made too late
Oscar Wilde
Image
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Oh, don't cough, Ernest. When one is dictating one should speak fluently and not cough. Besides, I don't know how to spell a cough.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude.
Oscar Wilde
Image
LORD ILLINGWORTH What do you think she'd do if I kissed her? MRS ALLONBY Either marry you, or strike you across the face with her glove. What would you do if she struck you across the face with her glove? LORD ILLINGWORTH Fall in love with her, probably.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.
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
He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece?
Oscar Wilde
Image
An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I never saw so many well-dressed, well-fed, business-looking Bohemians in my life.
Oscar Wilde
Image
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I was wrong. God's law is only Love.
Oscar Wilde
Image
No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.
Oscar Wilde
Image
But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins.
Oscar Wilde
Image
If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. But if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I walk the world in wonder.
Oscar Wilde
Image
but the bravest man among us is afraid of himself
Oscar Wilde
Image
The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.
Oscar Wilde