Oscar Wilde People Quotations [Page 2]

Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes

Never speak disrespectfully of Society. Only people who can't get into it do that.

Philanthropy seems to me to have become simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures

Philanthropy is the refuge of rich people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.

To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.

I was disappointed in Niagara -- most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people

I don't want money. It is only people who pay their bills who want that, and I never pay mine.

To get into the best society nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people

Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.

Some of these people need ten years of therapy -ten sentences of mine do not equal ten years of therapy.

People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately

One can always be kind to people one cares nothing about.

Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself don’t interest me. They have not got the charm of novelty.

People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only one answer. The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all.

Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilization.

I can't stand people that do not take food seriously.

Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.

Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London.

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating; people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances

Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination.

London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don't know.

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

For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about its comedies, and its tragedies seem to culminate in farce.

I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.

Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.

Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.

When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.

There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.

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

What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.

What nonsense people talk about happy marriages! A man can be happy with any woman so long as he doesn't love her

Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.

And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.

Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.

My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.

Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.

I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.

Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.