Choose language

Forgot your password?

Need a Spoofbox account? Create one for FREE!

No subscription or hidden extras

Login

Oscar Wilde

Read through the most famous quotes from Oscar Wilde




Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.


— Oscar Wilde


#exists #individuals #mental #only #real

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.


— Oscar Wilde


#could #english #here #how #irish

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.


— Oscar Wilde


#refuge #seriousness #shallow

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.


— Oscar Wilde


#mediocrities #paid #ridicule #tribute

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.


— Oscar Wilde


#country #good #temptations

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.


— Oscar Wilde


#gods #our #prayers #punish #us

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.


— Oscar Wilde


#everything #know #middle-aged #old #suspect

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.


— Oscar Wilde


#fascinating #income #permanent #than

Biography lends to death a new terror.


— Oscar Wilde


#death #lends #new #terror

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.


— Oscar Wilde


#her #long #look #own #perfectly






About Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde Quotes




Did you know about Oscar Wilde?

One evening after discussing depictions of Salome throughout history he returned to his hotel to notice a blank copybook lying on the desk and it occurred to him to write down what he had been saying. " which Wilde had begun in 1887 was first publiOscar Wilded in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine in July 1889. tour of Patience and selling this most charming aesthete to the American public.

At the turn of the 1890s he refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays and incorporated themes of decadence duplicity and beauty into his only novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. As a spokesman for aestheticism he tried his hand at various literary activities: he publiOscar Wilded a book of poems lectured in the United States and Canada on the new "English Renaissance in Art" and then returned to London where he worked prolifically as a journalist.

back to top