The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork - Oscar Wilde

Quote by Oscar Wilde

Topics: Etiquette Quotes, Manners Quotes

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I...

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I...

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable, and literature is not...

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable, and literature is not...

Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and...

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and...

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be

His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be

The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything: the young know everything.

The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything: the young know everything.

We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we...

We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we...

Marriage is not a word; it is a sentence

Marriage is not a word; it is a sentence

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and...

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and...

All great ideas are dangerous.

All great ideas are dangerous.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than...

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than...

Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested...

Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested...

Simplicity is Beauty and Beauty is simplicity, nothing more, nothing less.

Simplicity is Beauty and Beauty is simplicity, nothing more, nothing less.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do,...

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do,...

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love...

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love...

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon...

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon...