Quotes by Wilde, Oscar

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calc >>

If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out. >>

When a man has once loved a woman, he will do anything for her, except >>

Quotations about Lies and Lying

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable. >>

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the >>

Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency. >>

The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.

Wilde, Oscar