It is only by not paying one’s bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes. — Oscar Wilde
It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it. — Oscar Wilde
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. — Oscar Wilde
Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed. — Oscar Wilde
Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. — Oscar Wilde
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul. — Oscar Wilde
Now that the house of commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm. — Oscar Wilde
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. — Oscar Wilde
Perhaps, after all, america never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. — Oscar Wilde
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. — Oscar Wilde
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties. — Oscar Wilde
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it… I can resist everything but temptation. — Oscar Wilde
The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it. — Oscar Wilde