19 Oscar Wilde Quotes on Communication

Oscar Wilde quotes on communication

5. Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

15. We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

23. I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.

54. There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

63. Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

64. Now, the value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. Indeed, the probabilities are that the more insincere the man is, the more purely intellectual will the idea be, as in that case it will not be coloured by either his wants, his desires, or his prejudices.

68. He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.

93. Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.

98. It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

101. To define is to limit.

102. A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.

106. Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They're the only things we can pay.

122. It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

140. Now-a-days it is only the unreadable that occurs.

148. Ah! That must be Aunt Augusta. Only relatives, or creditors, ever ring in that Wagnerian manner.

162. When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand.

216. I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.

226. A true friend stabs you in the front

250. The dinner table was Wilde's event and made him the greatest talker of his time: