author: oscar wilde

  • In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed – they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock. – Oscar Wilde

  • As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. – Oscar Wilde

  • A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. – Oscar Wilde

  • The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. – Oscar Wilde

  • Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. – Oscar Wilde

  • Some cause happiness wherever they go; others,whenever they go. – Oscar Wilde

  • Most people are other people.  Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. – Oscar Wilde

  • There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. – Oscar Wilde

  • Loving oneself starts a life long romance. – Oscar Wilde

  • There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. – Oscar Wilde

  • Work is the curse of the drinking class. – Oscar Wilde

  • An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship. – Oscar Wilde