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Author: Oscar Wilde Page 2
Duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.
Oscar Wilde
(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet
Characteristics
People
Duty
Purpose
He [Bernard Shaw] hasn’t an enemy in the world, and none of his friends like him.
Oscar Wilde
(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet
Insults
George Bernard Shaw
I like Wagner’s music better than anybody’s; it is so loud that one can talk the whole time without people hearing what one says.
Oscar Wilde
(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet
Entertainment
Music
Reviews/Criticism
Richard Wagner
Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
Oscar Wilde
(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet
People
Relationships
Women
I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent invitation.
Oscar Wilde
(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet
Situations
Invitations
When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.
Oscar Wilde
(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet
Age
Life
Money
Young
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde
(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet
Characteristics
Optimism
Good intentions are invariably ungrammatical.
Oscar Wilde
(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet
Characteristics
Good intentions
I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.
Oscar Wilde
(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet
Friends
Intelligence
Old
People
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
Oscar Wilde
(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet
Communication
England
People
Places
Speech
Ireland
Listening
The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common!
Oscar Wilde
(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet
People
Be moderate in all things, including moderation.
Oscar Wilde
(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet
Characteristics
Advice
Moderation
The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.
Oscar Wilde
(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet
Characteristics
Fanatic
Sincerity
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde
(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet
Characteristics
Emotions
People
Annoyance
Enemies
Forgive
A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde
(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet
Characteristics
Cynics
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
Oscar Wilde
(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet
Activities
Age
Exercise
Young
Do anything
Respectable
Football is all very well a good game for rough girls, but not for delicate boys.
Oscar Wilde
(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet
Football
Sports
Bad artists always admire each other’s work.
Oscar Wilde
(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet
Art
Entertainment
Artists
I have met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you’re twenty minutes.
Oscar Wilde
(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet
Characteristics
Insults
The gods bestowed on Max [Beerbohm] the gift of perpetual old age.
Oscar Wilde
(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet
Age
Insults
Old
Criticism
If I hadn’t my debts I shouldn’t have anything to think about.
Oscar Wilde
(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet
Money
Debts
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