“A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde
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Famous Oscar Wilde Quotes
“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.”
“A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.”
Source: Aphorisms
“An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.”
“No man is rich enough to buy back his past.”
Source: The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde
“Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.”
“What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
“I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.”
Source: Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations
“When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.”
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
“Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts
“Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.”
“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays
“Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.”
Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde
“The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.”
“How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.”
Source: Lady Windermere's Fan
“Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.”
“One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)
Source: The critic as artist (low cost). Limited edition
Source: The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest: Revised Edition
Source: Oscar Wilde - The Major Works
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Short Stories
“The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.”
“I like men who have a future and women who have a past.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays
“Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.”
“Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.”
Source: Epigrams
Source: The Soul of Man, and Prison Writings
“Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.”
Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)
“Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.”
Source: Aphorisms
Source: Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis
“Just because a man has died for it, does not make it true.”
Source: The Soul of Man under Socialism
“Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition
“Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.”
Source: The Soul of Man, and Prison Writings
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Story of a Fashionable Young Man Who Sells His Soul for Eternal Youth and Beauty (Beloved Books Edition)
“In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays
Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it”
Source: Epigrams
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays