Top 179 Quotes by Oscar Wilde

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

When good Americans die they go to Paris.

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination.

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.