"To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.












I'm too old to know everything
More Oscar Wilde quotes
"I have no objection to anyone’s sex life as long as they don’t practice it in the street and frighten the horses.
"People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accu...
"Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.
"I wrote when I did not know life;now that I know life, I have no more to say.
"He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.
"Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman
"LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life...
"Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast
"The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
"Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!
"A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
"Lady Bracknell, I hate to seem inquisitive, but would you kindly inform me who I am?
"Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things.That is exactly what things were originally made for.
"I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.