The old believe everything: the middle-aged suspect everything: the young know everything.Oscar Wilde
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.Oscar Wilde
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.Oscar Wilde
The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.Oscar Wilde
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.Oscar Wilde
There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.Oscar Wilde
There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has the right to blame us.Oscar Wilde
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.Oscar Wilde
There is no such thing as romance in our day, women have become too brilliant; nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.Oscar Wilde
There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.Oscar Wilde
There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.Oscar Wilde
There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.Oscar Wilde
There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.Oscar Wilde
Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.Oscar Wilde
