Source: The Importance of Being Earnest: Revised Edition
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Famous Oscar Wilde Quotes
Source: The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings
“Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.”
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest
“When people talk to me about the weather, I always feel they mean something else.”
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest
“A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.”
Source: Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis
“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.”
“To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.”
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest
“The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.”
“No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays
“In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.”
Source: Aphorisms
“Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.”
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest: Revised Edition
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest: Revised Edition
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
“Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.”
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest
“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”
Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde
“I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.”
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest
“I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.”
Source: Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest
Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde
“A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.”
Source: The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
Source: The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings
“Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.”
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Novel for Serious People
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest: Revised Edition
“I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.”
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest
“I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.”
Source: Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People. The Original Four-act Version
“Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest
“By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.”
Source: The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde
“Really, if the lower orders don't set a good example, what on earth is the use of them?”