My Favorite Oscar Wilde quotes

(copied from "Wilde Things - The Epigrams of Oscar Wilde" - 1972)

"Poets know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions."

"A bad woman is the sort of woman a man never gets tired of."

"More marriages are ruined nowadays by the common sense of the husband then by anything else. How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly rational being?"

"After a good dinner, one could forgive anybody, including one's own relations."

"We live in an age when only unnecessary things are absolutely necessary to us."

"Good people do a great deal of harm in the world. Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance. It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious."

"To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance."

"The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius."

"Divorces are made in heaven."

"Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others."

"All women become like their mothers - that is their tragedy. No man does. That's his."

"The Soul is born old, but it grows young; that is the comedy of life. The Body is born young and grows old; that is life's tragedy."

"Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin, but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building."

"Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions."

"Women only call each other sister after they have called each other a lot of other things first."

"Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one."

"It is always nice to be expected and not to arrive."

"The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life."

"The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature an impossibility."

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