“A poet can survive everything but a misprint.” — Oscar Wilde
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” — 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
“Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands” — Oscar Wilde
“We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.” — Oscar Wilde
“Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.” — Oscar Wilde
“The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.” — Oscar Wilde
“The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.” — Oscar Wilde
“He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.” — Oscar Wilde
“One should never make one's debut in a scandal. One should reserve that to give interest to one's old age.” — Oscar Wilde
“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.” — Oscar Wilde
“I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean” — Oscar Wilde