15 Oscar Wilde Quotes on Social

Oscar Wilde quotes on social

19. He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.

22. On [George Bernard Shaw] An excellent man: he has no enemies, and none of his friends like him.

73. I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.

167. 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.

168. If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being immensely over-educated.

171. 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.

179. Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

185. However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive.

190. My dear father, when one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.

192. I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

206. When a voice behind me whispered low, 'That fellow's got to swing.'

211. And alien tears will fill for him Pity's long-broken urn, For his mourners will be outcast men, And outcasts always mourn.

220. We are specially designed to appeal to the sense of humour.

241. Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

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