Oscar Wilde Quotes

"I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself." ~ An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde "Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life." ~ Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde "I prefer women with a past. They're always so demmed amusing to talk to." ~ Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde "History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality." ~ Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde "It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious." ~ Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde "I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean." ~ Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde "I can resist everything except temptation." ~ Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde "Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes." ~ Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde "Ah, nowadays we are all of us so hard up, that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They're the only things we can pay." ~ Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde "Scotland Yard still insists that the man in the grey ulster who left for Paris by the midnight train on the ninth of November was poor Basil, and the French police declare that Basil never arrived in Paris at all. I suppose in about a fortnight we shall be told that he has been seen in San Francisco. It is an odd thing, but every one who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and possess all the attractions of the next world." ~ The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde