Quote

The only thing worse than being misquoted is being sentenced to two years' hard labour for buggery

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
Labour
Worse
Two
Hard
Thing
Years
Misquoted
Sentenced

More quotes by Oscar Wilde

Image
No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
Oscar Wilde
Image
I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things.
Oscar Wilde
Image
He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you?
Oscar Wilde
Image
The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.
Oscar Wilde
Image
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise [in the future. But only if we set out to make this true and anticipate it so we look for the blessings until we find them].
Oscar Wilde
Image
Fashion: by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.
Oscar Wilde
Image
A burnt child loves the fire.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
Oscar Wilde
Image
But what of life whose bitter hungry sea Flows at our heels, and gloom of sunless night Covers the days which never more return? Ambition, love and all the thoughts that burn We lose too soon, and only find delight In withered husks of some dead memory.
Oscar Wilde
Image
America is one long expectoration.
Oscar Wilde
Image
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The sky was pure opal now.
Oscar Wilde