Quotes by Oscar Wilde

1. A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
2. A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.
3. America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
4. Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
5. Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
6. At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.
7. Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
8. Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
9. Genius is born--not paid.
10. I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.
11. I am not young enough to know everything.