Oscar Wilde Quotes

"She was like one of those strange crystals that one sees in museums, which are at one moment clear, and at another clouded." ~ The Sphinx Without a Secret by Oscar Wilde "Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood." ~ The Sphinx Without a Secret by Oscar Wilde "In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity is the vital thing." ~ The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde "Indeed, when I am in really great trouble, as any one who knows me intimately will tell you, I refuse everything except food and drink." ~ The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde "Memory, my dear Cecily, is the diary that we all carry about with us." ~ The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde "Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes." ~ The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde "Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf." ~ An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde "Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are." ~ An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde "Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement." ~ An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde "Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike." ~ An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde