"No good deed goes unpunished.












Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.
More Oscar Wilde quotes
"The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.
"I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
"She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.
"I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
"I have nothing to declare except my genius.
"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.The nineteenth century dislike of realism ...
"The English novels are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed. But one should not be too severe on them. They show a want of knowledge t...
"It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
"I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.
"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
"The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
"The curves of your lips rewrite history.
"One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry.
"If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.