My students want to read some of Oscar Wilde´s quotes.
Enjoy !
The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
Whenever people agree with me, I always feel I must be wrong.
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
Charity creates a multitude of sins.
Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
I am not young enough to know everything.
I can resist everything except temptation.
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
I have nothing to declare except my genius.
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
Only the shallow know themselves.
Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
