Quotes about Oscar Wilde
There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
- Oscar Wilde
I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.
- Oscar Wilde
Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
- Oscar Wilde
Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women...merely adored.
- Oscar Wilde
Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.
- Oscar Wilde
Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .
- Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde was suing the Marquis of Queensbury in 1895 for libel accusing Wilde of homosexuality Counsel: Have you ever adored a young man madly? Wilde: I have never given adoration to anyone except myself.
- Oscar Wilde
You seem to forget that I am married, and the one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
- Oscar Wilde
Never met such a Gorgon . . . I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair.
- Oscar Wilde
Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling, and Domine non sum dignus should be on the lips and in the hearts of those who receive it.
- Oscar Wilde
Do you smoke? Well, yes, I must admit I smoke. I'm glad to hear of it. A man should always have an occupation of some kind.
- Oscar Wilde
And alien tears will fill for him pity's long broken urn. For his mourners will all be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.
- Oscar Wilde