If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
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Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.
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The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
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One's real life is often the life that one does not lead.
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I have nothing to declare except my genius.
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It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously.
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Seriousness is the last refuge of the shallow.
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Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
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I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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No good deed goes unpunished.
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.
What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb.American novels, answered Lord Henry.
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Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.(Oscar Wilde's dying words)
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The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. One should always be in love - that's the reason one should never marry.
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The ages live in history through their anachronisms.
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Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.
The only good thing to do with good advice is pass it on; it is never of any use to oneself.
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One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry.
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The play was a great success, but the audience was a total failure
In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.
The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.
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