Oscar Wilde Quotes About Drinking

• There can be nothing more frequent than an occasional drink.

  Oscar Wilde

  Drinking, Occasional, Funny Drinking

• A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.124, Wordsworth Editions

• After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.

  Oscar Wilde

  Drinking, Glasses, Wish

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.165, Wordsworth Editions

• Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Witty, Work

  Quoted in Frank Harris, Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions (1916)

• Too much work, and no vacation, Deserves at least a small libation. So hail! my friends, and raise your glasses, Work's the curse of the drinking classes.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Drinking, Vacation

• The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

  Oscar Wilde

  Drinking, Emotion, Advantage

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.216, Courier Corporation

• It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

  Oscar Wilde

  Graduation, Witty, Money

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.4, Oscar Wilde

• Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Drinking, Beer

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations”, p.26, Courier Corporation

• I can resist everything except temptation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

  Lady Windermere's Fan act 1 (1892) See Balzac 1; Clementina Graham 1; Mae West 19; Wilde 25

• Oh, he occasionally takes an alcoholiday.

  Oscar Wilde

  Drinking, Irish Drinking

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.166, Courier Corporation

• Work is the curse of the drinking class.
  I can resist everything except temptation.
  Moderation is a fatal thing - nothing succeeds like excess.
  We are all of us in the gutter. But some of us are looking at the stars.

  Oscar Wilde

  Stars, Drinking, Class

• Only the unimaginative can fail to find a reason for drinking Champagne

  Oscar Wilde

  Drinking, Failing, Reason

• So lets knock a couple back and make some noise

  Oscar Wilde

  Couple, Drinking, Noise

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