Quotes by Oscar Wilde

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life now that I am old I know that it is.

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.