Oscar Wilde Quotes

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.

My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.

In married life three is company and two is none.

In Colorado 2 men were hanged the night before in the theatre in which I lectured. i was the sorbet after the side of beef.

I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.

When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognizes infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it.