Pluck is not so common nowadays as genius. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded. [ Yogi Berra ]
The world is nowadays, God save the conqueror. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]
Nowadays it is only the unreadable that occurs. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
Nowadays, those who love nature are accused of being romantic. [ Chamfort ]
Nowadays we no longer laugh: we only smile, and our pleasures come very near ennui. [ De Bernis ]
Spies are of no use nowadays. Their profession is over. The newspapers do their work instead. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]
To get into the best society nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
Poets know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
We are all of us so hard-up nowadays that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They're the only things we can pay. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]
Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]
It is safer to believe evil of everyone until people are found out to be good, but that requires a great deal of investigation nowadays. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
It is most dangerous nowadays for a husband to pay any attention to his wife in public. It always makes people think that he beats her when they are alone. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]
A really grand passion is comparatively rare nowadays. It is the privilege of people who have nothing to do. That is the only use of the idle classes in the country. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
What consoles one nowadays is not repentance, but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date, and beside, if a woman really repents, she has to go to a bad dressmaker, otherwise no one believes in her. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]
More marriages are ruined nowadays by the common sense of the husband than by anything else. How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly rational being. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
Nowadays enthusiasm is accounted folly; truth, cynicism; dissimulation, self-control; stiffness of manners, dignity; deception, cleverness; hypocrisy, decency; selfishness, economy; freedom of thought, effrontery; and superstition, the prop of human morals. What progress in language!
Vulgar habit people have nowadays of asking one, after one has given them an idea, whether one is serious or not. Nothing is serious except passion. The intellect is an instrument on which one plays, that is all. The only serious form of intellect is the British intellect. And on the British form of intellect the illiterates play the drum. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]