Author: Oscar Wilde

The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

I have met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you’re twenty minutes.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common!

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

Don't tempt me, I can resist anything but temptation.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

Football is all very well a good game for rough girls, but not for delicate boys.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

The young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

I don’t like the Switzerland: it has produced nothing but theologians and waiters.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

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

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

Relations are a tedious lot of people who don’t know how to live or when to die.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

Morality, like art, means a drawing a line someplace.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

Be moderate in all things, including moderation.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

A monstrous orchid.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent invitation.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet