Oscar Wilde Quotes on Social
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He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.
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On [George Bernard Shaw] An excellent man: he has no enemies, and none of his friends like him.
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I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.
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The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.
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If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being immensely over-educated.
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To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.
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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
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However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive.
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My dear father, when one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.
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I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.
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When a voice behind me whispered low, 'That fellow's got to swing.'
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And alien tears will fill for him Pity's long-broken urn, For his mourners will be outcast men, And outcasts always mourn.
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We are specially designed to appeal to the sense of humour.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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The dinner table was Wilde's event and made him the greatest talker of his time: