Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oscar Wilde

I don't recognize you - I've changed a lot.

Oscar Wilde

I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such indecent postures.

Oscar Wilde

However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive.

Oscar Wilde

Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.

Oscar Wilde

Really, if the lower orders don't set a good example, what on earth is the use of them?

Oscar Wilde

When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

Oscar Wilde

I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.

Oscar Wilde

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

Oscar Wilde

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

Oscar Wilde

Only the shallow know themselves.

Oscar Wilde

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

Oscar Wilde

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

Oscar Wilde

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

Oscar Wilde

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

Oscar Wilde

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

Oscar Wilde

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

Oscar Wilde

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

Oscar Wilde

Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

Oscar Wilde

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Oscar Wilde

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

Oscar Wilde

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.

Oscar Wilde

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

Oscar Wilde

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

Oscar Wilde

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

Oscar Wilde

To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.

Mae West

Goodness, what beautiful diamonds!' 'Goodness had nothing to do with it'.

Mae West

I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you.

Mae West

I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.

Mae West

He who hesitates is a damned fool.

Mae West

A man in the house is worth two in the street.

Mae West

March isn't the only thing that's in like a lion and out like a lamb.

Mae West

A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.

Mae West

I don't know a lot about politics, but I can recognise a good party man when I see one.