“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from A Woman of No Importance
“Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from A Woman of No Importance
“But she is happiest alone. She is happiest alone.”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from A Woman of No Importance
“Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from A Woman of No Importance
“Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from A Woman of No Importance
“To get into the best society, nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people - that is all!”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from A Woman of No Importance
“When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from A Woman of No Importance
“LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.
MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from A Woman of No Importance
“The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from A Woman of No Importance
“I don't know how to talk.
Oh! talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from A Woman of No Importance
“You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from A Woman of No Importance
“LORD ILLINGWORTH What do you think she'd do if I kissed her?
MRS ALLONBY Either marry you, or strike you across the face with her glove. What would you do if she struck you across the face with her glove?
LORD ILLINGWORTH Fall in love with her, probably.”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from A Woman of No Importance
“I was wrong. God's law is only Love.”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from A Woman of No Importance
“It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need: lavished on them a love that was not theirs.”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from A Woman of No Importance
“MRS ALLONBY Is she such a mystery?
LORD ILLINGWORTH She is more than a mystery - she is a mood.
MRS ALLONBY Moods don't last.
LORD ILLINGWORTH It is their chief charm.”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from A Woman of No Importance
“Only love can keep anyone alive...”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from A Woman of No Importance
“MRS ALLONBY I adore them. The clever people never listen, and the stupid people never talk.
HESTER I think the stupid people talk a great deal.
MRS ALLONBY Ah, I never listen!”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from A Woman of No Importance
“Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from A Woman of No Importance
“But don't you think one can be happy when on is married?
Perfectly happy. But the happiness of a married man, my dear Gerald, depends on the people he has not married.
But if one is in love?
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from A Woman of No Importance
“You know I have loved him always.
But we are very poor.
Who, being loved, is poor? Oh, no one. I hate my riches. They are a burden...”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from A Woman of No Importance
“My dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth; I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you said it, which is much more important.”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from A Woman of No Importance
“No woman should have a memory. Memory in a woman is the beginning of dowdiness. One can always tell from a woman's bonnet whether she has got a memory or not.”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from A Woman of No Importance
“MRS. ALLONBY. It is only fair to tell you beforehand he has got no conversation at all.
LADY STUTFIELD. I adore silent men.
MRS ALLONBY. Oh, Ernest isn't silent. He talks the whole time. But he has got no conversation. What he talks about I don't know. I haven't listened to him for years.”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from A Woman of No Importance
“To win back my youth, there is nothing I wouldn't do - except take exercise, get up early, or be a useful member of the community.”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from A Woman of No Importance
“Duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from A Woman of No Importance
“The one advantage of playing with fire, Lady Caroline, is that one never gets even singed. It is the people who don't know how to play with it who get burned up.”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from A Woman of No Importance
“MRS ALLONBY Have you tried a good reputation?
LORD ILLINGWORTH It is one of the many annoyances to which I have never been subjected.”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from A Woman of No Importance
“You shut out from your society the gentle and the good. You laugh at the simple and the pure. Living, as you all do, on others and by them, you sneer at self-sacrifice, and if you throw bread to the poor, it is merely to keep them quiet for a season.”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from A Woman of No Importance
“LORD ILLINGWORTH. As George Harford I had everything I wanted. Now I have merely everything that other people want, which isn't nearly so pleasant.”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from A Woman of No Importance
“Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from A Woman of No Importance
Oscar Wilde
Born place: in Dublin, Ireland
Born date October 16, 1854
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“I don’t love or hate humans. I respect them. They shape themselves, in a way that we angels do not. They tell lies and sleep around and curse, and they try to define themselves so valiantly. Who am I? they keep asking. Why am I here?”
― Cynthia Hand, quote from Radiant
“Now some people will tell you that great writing cannot be learnt. Such people should be hit repeatedly on the nose until they promise not to talk nonsense any more.”
― Mark Forsyth, quote from The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase
“met Barnaby Wiggam's ghost. The fat, bulbous-nosed spirit fading in and out beside me like a faulty gas lamp clearly thought he was dealing with a fool. I may only be seventeen but I'm not naïve. I know when someone is lying—being dead didn't alter the tell-tale signs. Mr. Wiggam didn't quite meet my eyes, or those of his widow and her guests—none of whom could see him anyway—and he fidgeted with his crisp white silk necktie as if it strangled”
― C.J. Archer, quote from The Medium
“One drunken evening filled with passion, carelessness and Jagermeister.”
― Dina Silver, quote from One Pink Line
“Life isn't always about fireworks. Your fireworks will come, Sarah. And they'll fizzle out just as fast. Life's an experience, not a destination. All of us have the same destination, but not one of us has an identical experience. You'll find someone who will be there when the fireworks fizzle out and the sky turns black and love you just the same. That’s the one to hold onto.”
― Marilyn Grey, quote from Bloom
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