I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to. Oscar Wilde More Quotes by Oscar Wilde More Quotes From Oscar Wilde You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want? Oscar Wilde cigarette-smokesmokingperfect Ah! realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing. Oscar Wilde ignorantlisteninggiving A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her. Oscar Wilde inspirationallovefunny To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual. Oscar Wilde lazysimplicityhappiness Some things are too important to be taken seriously. Oscar Wilde importanttaken The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society. Oscar Wilde delightliarsgiving Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace. Oscar Wilde beautifullifedeath Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword! Some kill their love when they are young, And some when they are old; Some strangle with the hands of Lust, Some with the hands of Gold: The kindest use a knife, because The dead so soon grow cold. Some love too little, some too long, Some sell, and others buy; Some do the deed with many tears, And some without a sigh: For each man kills the thing he loves, Yet each man does not die. Oscar Wilde kissingmenhands They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about. Oscar Wilde up-earlybedthinking Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. Oscar Wilde moneyrealinspirational The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived. Oscar Wilde secretlife-isinspirational Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat. Oscar Wilde marriagesarcasticfunny It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little. Oscar Wilde naturelittleslooks How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being. Oscar Wilde valentines-daymarriagefunny An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him. Oscar Wilde funny-friendfriendshipmen A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. Oscar Wilde wittyinspirationalfunny Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong. Oscar Wilde crownsworldart Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. Oscar Wilde being-yourselflove-yourselftaken Don't give a woman advice; one should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening. Oscar Wilde sarcasticspiritualfunny People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards. Oscar Wilde fashionunderstandingpeople
