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 Education
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. Oscar Wilde Friendship
No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone. Oscar Wilde Beauty
Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world. Oscar Wilde Beauty
If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk. Oscar Wilde Music
In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth. Oscar Wilde Science
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. Oscar Wilde Friendship
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects. Oscar Wilde Men
No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone. Oscar Wilde Art
You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit. Oscar Wilde Courage