Quotes from Oscar Wilde

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.

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.

And alien tears will fill for him pity's long broken urn. For his mourners will all be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.

Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

Love is easily killed.

A burnt child loves the fire.

Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy.

Genius lasts longer than beauty

But she is happiest alone. She is happiest alone.

Now and then, however, he is horribly thoughtless, and seems to take a real delight in giving me pain. Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to some one who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day.