Quotes by Wilde, Oscar

Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer. >>

All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are senten >>

One knows so well the popular idea of health. The English country gent >>

Quotations about Respectability

Well, dearie, men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their >>

Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office. >>

Reverence is one of the signs of strength, irreverence one of the sure >>

Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak. They a

Wilde, Oscar