Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.
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The best quotes by Oscar Wilde
Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.
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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.
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Ideas are dangerous things. Reality is better: it hurts one, but it is worth more.
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All thoughts are immoral. Their true essence lies in destruction. Think of something and you kill it. Nothing survives if it is thought.
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There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new.
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Women who have common sense are so curiously plain...
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She certainly has a wonderful faculty of remembering people's names and forgetting their faces.
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I'm always pleased to know my relatives have been insulted. It is the only link I have with them. Relatives are simply a tedious bunch of people who haven't the slightest idea of how to live, or the slightest inckling for the right time to die.
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To test reality we must see it on the tight rope. When the verities become acrobats, we can judge them.
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