Oscar Wilde Should Quotations

Art should never be popular.

Everyone should keep someone else's diary.

Whenever one has anything unpleasant to say, one should always be quite candid.

One should absorb the color of life.

I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals.

Men of thoughts should have nothing to do with action.

Women have become so highly educated... that nothing should surprise us nowadays, except happy marriages.

One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.

His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be

To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.

One should always be a little improbable.

Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.

Circumstances should never alter principles!

When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.

I am tired of myself to-night. I should like to be somebody else.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one's hearers.

No man should have a secret from his wife. She invariably finds it out.

If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.

No woman should have a memory. Memory in a woman is the beginning of dowdiness. One can always tell from a woman's bonnet whether she has got a memory or not.

Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.

Muffins should always be eaten quite calmly, as it is the only way to eat them!

Oh, don't cough, Ernest. When one is dictating one should speak fluently and not cough. Besides, I don't know how to spell a cough.

If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern)

You and I will always be friends." "Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that.

No publisher should ever express an opinion of the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide.

Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.