Humorous Quotes attributed to Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, Irish Author, 在他真正步入寫作行列之前, 他就以他的個人魅力, 風趣, 詼諧, 睿智, 尖銳而風靡整個倫敦以至英國.人們都競相以親身參加他的演講而榮幸.

*A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. (The Critic as Artist)

*A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her. (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

*A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

*A pessimist is one who, when he has a choice of two evils, chooses both.

*Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

*Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it. (The Critic as Artist)

*Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature. (The Critic as Artist)

*Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative

Don't talk about action... Its basis is the lack of imagination.It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream. (The Critic as Artist)

*Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. (Lady Windemere's Fan)

*Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

*I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself. (An Ideal Husband)

*I am not young enough to know everything.

*I can resist everything except temptation. (Lady Windermere's Fan)

*If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out. (Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young)

*In married life three is company and two none.

*Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men

*Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women like to be a man's last romance.

*One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

*One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that, would tell one anything. (A Woman of No Importance)

*The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

*The difference between journalism and literature is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

*The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
*The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

*To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. (An Ideal Husband)

*There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about

*Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them

*Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

*A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.

*The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves