Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity. - Oscar Wilde
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. - Oscar Wilde
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. - Oscar Wilde
Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. - Oscar Wilde
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away. - Oscar Wilde
Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to. - Oscar Wilde
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. - Oscar Wilde
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. - Oscar Wilde
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. - Oscar Wilde
Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life. - Oscar Wilde