Quotes: Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde was the ultimate dinner party wit: the decadent playwright who could spin a one-liner like nobody else. And now you can fool people into thinking you know his plays inside-out by memorising these 10 immortal quips that flowed from his pen.
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A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
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The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.
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True friends stab you in the front.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go, others whenever they go.
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Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune. To lose both looks like carelessness.
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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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