A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

— Oscar Wilde

A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. Our lives revolve in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses. I have just learned this, and much else with it, from Lord Goring. And I will not spoil your life for you, nor see you spoil it as a sacrifice to me, a useless sacrifice.

— Oscar Wilde

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

— Oscar Wilde

A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.

— Oscar Wilde

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realization of Utopias.

— Oscar Wilde

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

— Oscar Wilde

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

— Oscar Wilde

America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself.

— Oscar Wilde

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

— Oscar Wilde

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.

— Oscar Wilde