Oscar Wilde Hard Quotations

Ah, nowadays we are all of us so hard up, that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They're the only things we can pay.

Pardon me, you are not engaged to any one. When you do become engaged to some one, I, or your father, should his health permit him, will inform you of the fact. An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant, as the case may be. It is hardly a matter that she could be allowed to arrange for herself.

Hard work is amply the refuge of those who have nothing to do.

The only thing worse than being misquoted is being sentenced to two years' hard labour for buggery

I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.

It is awfully hard work doing nothing.

I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules.

It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind. -Algernon

Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.