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He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The Others write the poetry that they dare not realise. Oscar Wilde |
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| "...music is the perfect type of art. Music can never reveal its ultimate secret. This, also, is the explanation of the value of limitations in art. The sculptor gladly surrenders imitative colour, and the painter the actual dimensions of form, because by such renunciations they are able to avoid too definite a presentation of the Real, which would be mere imitation, and too definite a realisation of the Ideal, which would be too purely intellectual. It is through its very incompleteness that art becomes complete in beauty, and so addresses itself, not to the faculty of recognition nor to the faculty of reason, but to the aesthetic sense alone, which, while accepting both reason and recognition as stages of apprehension, subordinates them both to a pure synthetic impression of the work of art as a whole, and, taking whatever alien emotional elements the work may possess, uses their very complexity as a means by which a richer unity may be added to the ultimate impression itself." Oscar Wilde Quotations |
| "All that I desire to point out is the general principle that Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life." Oscar Wilde Popular Quotes |
| "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." Oscar Wilde |
| "By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, [journalism] keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community." Oscar Wilde |
| "Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative." Oscar Wilde |
| "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." Oscar Wilde |
| "One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be." Oscar Wilde Popular Quotes |
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| "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go." Oscar Wilde Adages |
| "The community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime." Oscar Wilde Popular Quotes |
| "The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands." Oscar Wilde |
| "The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple." Oscar Wilde Sayings |
| "True friends stab you in the front." Oscar Wilde |
| "Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat." Oscar Wilde |
"Yet each man kills the thing he loves,
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!" Oscar Wilde |
| 35 is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years. Oscar Wilde Adages |
| A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want? Oscar Wilde |
| A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. Oscar Wilde Popular Quotes |
| A cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. Oscar Wilde |
| A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. Oscar Wilde Popular Quotes |
| A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally. Oscar Wilde |
| A kiss may ruin a human life. Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. Oscar Wilde Adages |
| A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her Oscar Wilde |
| A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies. Oscar Wilde Sayings |
| A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies Oscar Wilde |
| A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. Oscar Wilde |
| A man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing. Oscar Wilde Remarks |
| A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. Oscar Wilde Remarks |
| A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. It is grossly selfish to require of one's neighbour that he should think in the same way, and hold the same opinions. Why should he? If he can think, he will probably think differently. If he cannot think, it is monstrous to require thought of any kind from him. Oscar Wilde |
| A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them. Oscar Wilde |
| A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain Oscar Wilde Quotations |
| A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten Oscar Wilde Popular Quotes |
| A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction. Oscar Wilde |
| A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life. Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| A mans face is his autobiography. A women's face is her work of fiction. Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| 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. Oscar Wilde Remarks |
| A mask tells us more than a face. Oscar Wilde Popular Quotes |
| A misanthrope I can understand - a womanthrope never Oscar Wilde Quotations |
| A poet can survive everything but a misprint. Oscar Wilde Sayings |
| A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection. Oscar Wilde Remarks |
| A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection. Oscar Wilde |
| A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| A true friend stabs you in the front. Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude Oscar Wilde |
| A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it. Oscar Wilde Sayings |
| A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on Oscar Wilde Adages |
| A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Oscar Wilde Sayings |
| Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream. Oscar Wilde Adages |
| After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations Oscar Wilde |
| Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilization. Oscar Wilde |
| Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means. Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| Alas, I am dying beyond my means. Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| All art is quite useless. Oscar Wilde |
| All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction. Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| All religious organizations exist to sell themselves to the rich. Oscar Wilde Adages |
| All that I desire to point out is the general principle that Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life. Oscar Wilde Remarks |
| All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death. Oscar Wilde Quotations |
| All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. Oscar Wilde |
| Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much. Oscar Wilde |
| Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them more. Oscar Wilde |
| Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. Oscar Wilde Remarks |
| Ambition is the last refuge of failure. Oscar Wilde |
| America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up. Oscar Wilde Quotations |
| America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. Oscar Wilde Popular Quotes |
| An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship Oscar Wilde Sayings |
| An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship. Oscar Wilde Sayings |
| 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. Oscar Wilde Popular Quotes |
| An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young Oscar Wilde |
| An ordinary man away from home giving advice. Oscar Wilde Quotations |
| And beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or spring-time, or the reflection in dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has its divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it. Oscar Wilde |
| And he goes through life, his mouth open, and his mind closed Oscar Wilde Adages |
| And now, I am dying beyond my means. [Sipping champagne on his deathbed] Oscar Wilde Remarks |
| Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development Oscar Wilde |
| Anybody can be good in the country Oscar Wilde |
| Anybody can be good in the country. Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it. Oscar Wilde Adages |
| Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it Oscar Wilde Quotations |
| Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success. Oscar Wilde |
| Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature. Oscar Wilde |
| Argument are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing. Oscar Wilde Popular Quotes |
| Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion. Oscar Wilde |
| Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing. Oscar Wilde |
| Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets. Oscar Wilde |
| Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. Oscar Wilde Adages |
| As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back. Oscar Wilde Adages |
| As for a spoiled life, no life is spoiled but one whose growth is arrested. Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied. Oscar Wilde |
| As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. Oscar Wilde |
| As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime. Oscar Wilde Sayings |
| As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of his friends like him. Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all. Oscar Wilde |
| Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected. Oscar Wilde |
| Bad artists always admire each others work. Oscar Wilde |
| Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon. Oscar Wilde |
| Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. Oscar Wilde |
| Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. Oscar Wilde |
| But I am afraid that we are beginning to be over-educated; at least everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching Oscar Wilde |
| But the bravest man amongst us is afraid of himself. The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives. We are punished for our refusals. Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us. The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret. The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful. It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain. It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. Oscar Wilde Sayings |
But what is the difference between literature and journalism?
...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all. Oscar Wilde |
| But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good. Oscar Wilde Remarks |
| By giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it [modern journalism] keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. Oscar Wilde |
| By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Oscar Wilde Sayings |
| Cats are put on earth to remind us that not everything has a purpose. Oscar Wilde Quotations |
| Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. Oscar Wilde |
| Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. Oscar Wilde |
| Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes, they forgive them Oscar Wilde Remarks |
| Children have a natural antipathy to books - handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous. Oscar Wilde |
| Children have a natural antipathy to books--handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous. Oscar Wilde Adages |
| Civilization is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt. Oscar Wilde |
| Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us. Oscar Wilde |
| Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. Oscar Wilde |
| Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative Oscar Wilde |
| Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative. Oscar Wilde Popular Quotes |
| Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative. Oscar Wilde |
| Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing. Oscar Wilde |
| Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones. Oscar Wilde |
| Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace. Oscar Wilde |
| Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. Oscar Wilde |
| Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. Oscar Wilde Popular Quotes |
| Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation Oscar Wilde Sayings |
| Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion. Oscar Wilde Quotations |
| Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion. Oscar Wilde Sayings |
| Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion. Oscar Wilde Adages |
| Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to. Oscar Wilde |
| Doing nothing is hard work. Oscar Wilde Quotations |
| Don't give a woman advice: one should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening Oscar Wilde |
| Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness. Oscar Wilde Sayings |
| Duty is what one expects from others. Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid. Oscar Wilde Quotations |
| Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible. The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde |
| Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. Oscar Wilde Popular Quotes |
| Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography Oscar Wilde |
| Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth. Oscar Wilde Popular Quotes |
| Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. Oscar Wilde Popular Quotes |
| Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future. Oscar Wilde |
| Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself. Oscar Wilde |
| Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching. Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile. Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him. Oscar Wilde |
| Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. Oscar Wilde |
| Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. Oscar Wilde |
| Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes. Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes. Oscar Wilde |
| Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. Oscar Wilde |
| Experience is the name we give to our past mistakes Oscar Wilde Popular Quotes |
| Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Oscar Wilde Adages |
| Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures Oscar Wilde |
| Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. Oscar Wilde |
| Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. Oscar Wilde |
| Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life. Oscar Wilde |
| 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 Remarks |
| Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find an expression for joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy. Oscar Wilde Quotations |
| Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ectasy. Oscar Wilde |
| Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys. Oscar Wilde Sayings |
| For he who lives more lives than one - More deaths than one must die Oscar Wilde |
| For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us. Outside, the day may be blue and gold, but the light that creeps down through the thickly-muffled glass of the small iron-barred window beneath which one sits is grey and niggard. It is always twilight in one's cell, as it is always twilight in one's heart. And in the sphere of thought, no less than in the sphere of time, motion is no more. Oscar Wilde Popular Quotes |
| Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable. Oscar Wilde Quotations |
| Genius is born, not paid. Oscar Wilde |
| God and other artists are always a little obscure. Oscar Wilde Sayings |
| Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account. Oscar Wilde Sayings |
| Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life Oscar Wilde Remarks |
| Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. Oscar Wilde |
| Hatred is blind, as well as love. Oscar Wilde Popular Quotes |
| He covered page after page with wild words of sorrow and wilder words of pain. There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution. Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends. Oscar Wilde Remarks |
| He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing. Oscar Wilde |
| He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The Others write the poetry that they dare not realise. Oscar Wilde |
| He paid some attention to the management of his collieries in the Midland counties, excusing himself for this taint of industry on the ground that the one advantage of having coal was that it enabled a gentleman to afford the decency of burning wood on his own hearth. Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays. Oscar Wilde |
| He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives. Oscar Wilde Remarks |
| He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time. Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigram on his tombstone. Oscar Wilde |
| Hear no evil, speak no evil - and you'll never be invited to a party Oscar Wilde |
| Her love was trembling in laughter on her lips. Oscar Wilde Remarks |
| His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be Oscar Wilde |
| History is gossip but scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. Oscar Wilde |
| History is merely gossip Oscar Wilde |
| History is merely gossip. Oscar Wilde Quotations |
| How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being. Oscar Wilde |
| How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say. Oscar Wilde Sayings |
| How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in? Oscar Wilde |
| How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive. Oscar Wilde Quotations |
| How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver. Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics. Oscar Wilde Quotations |
| I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex. Oscar Wilde |
| I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones. Oscar Wilde |
| I always pass on good advice. It's the only thing to do with it. It is never any use to oneself. Oscar Wilde |
| I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood. Don't degrade me into the position of giving you useful information. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. Through the parted curtains of the window I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver. Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her. The sky is a hard hollow sapphire. Let us go out into the night. Thought is wonderful, but adventure is more wonderful still. Who knows but we may meet Prince Florizel of Bohemia, and hear the fair Cuban tell us that she is not what she seems? Oscar Wilde |
| I am not young enough to know everything. Oscar Wilde |
| I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. Oscar Wilde |
| I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly. Oscar Wilde Remarks |
| I can believe anything as long as it is incredible Oscar Wilde Sayings |
| I can believe anything provided it is incredible. Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible. Oscar Wilde Adages |
| I can resist anything but temptation. Oscar Wilde |
| I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect. Oscar Wilde Sayings |
| I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves. Oscar Wilde |
| I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. Oscar Wilde |
| I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing. Oscar Wilde |
| I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering. Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square. Oscar Wilde |
| I do not approve of anything which tampers with natural ignorance Oscar Wilde |
| I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. Oscar Wilde |
| I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean Oscar Wilde Quotations |
| I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices. Oscar Wilde Quotations |
| I don't want to earn my living; I want to live. Oscar Wilde |
| I forget what killed it. I think it was her proposing to sacrifice the whole world for me. That is always a dreadful moment. It fills one with the terror of eternity. Oscar Wilde |
| I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops. Oscar Wilde |
| I have made an important discovery... that alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, produces all the effect of intoxication. Oscar Wilde Remarks |
| I have met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes. Oscar Wilde Quotations |
| I have nothing to declare except my genius. Oscar Wilde |
| I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best. Oscar Wilde Sayings |
| I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. Oscar Wilde |
| I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself. Oscar Wilde |
| I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life. Oscar Wilde |
| I like men who have a future and women who have a past Oscar Wilde Adages |
| I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world. Oscar Wilde Sayings |
| I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments. Oscar Wilde |
| I live in fear of not being misunderstood Oscar Wilde Remarks |
| I love acting. It is so much more real than life. Oscar Wilde Remarks |
| I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about. Oscar Wilde Remarks |
| I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming pe Oscar Wilde Remarks |
| I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do. Oscar Wilde Adages |
| I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that. Oscar Wilde |
| I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works. Oscar Wilde |
| I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being. Oscar Wilde |
| I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across ... "Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best." The mortality among pianists in that place is marvellous. Oscar Wilde |
| I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability. Oscar Wilde Sayings |
| I sometimes think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability Oscar Wilde |
| I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy. Oscar Wilde |
| I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means. Oscar Wilde Popular Quotes |
| I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability. Oscar Wilde |
| I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir their dust into consciosness, to wake their ashes in pain. Oscar Wilde Remarks |
| I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again. Oscar Wilde |
| I'm sure I don't know half the people who come to my house. Indeed, from all I hear, I shouldn't like to. Oscar Wilde |
| If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity. Oscar Wilde |
| If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. Oscar Wilde Adages |
| If one hears bad music it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation Oscar Wilde |
| If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it. Oscar Wilde Sayings |
| If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world. Oscar Wilde |
| If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life. Oscar Wilde |
| If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want. Oscar Wilde Adages |
| If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism. Oscar Wilde Adages |
| Ignorance is like a delicate fruit; touch it, and the bloom is gone. Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| Illusion is the first of all pleasures. Oscar Wilde |
| Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is. Oscar Wilde Sayings |
| In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane. Oscar Wilde Adages |
| In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust. Oscar Wilde |
| In examinations, the foolish ask questions the wise cannot answer. Oscar Wilde |
| In life there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what you want, the other is getting it. Oscar Wilde Quotations |
| In the wild struggle for existance, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place. Oscar Wilde Quotations |
| In the world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. Oscar Wilde |
| In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. The last is much the worst; the last is a real tragedy! Oscar Wilde |
| Indeed, in many respects she was quite English and was an excellent example of the fact that we have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, the language Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| Indeed, so far from being humorous, the male American is the most abnormally serious creature who ever existed.... It is only fair to admit that he can exaggerate, but even his exaggeration has a rational basis. It is not founded on wit or fancy; it does not spring from any poetic imagination.... Oscar Wilde Quotations |
| Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing. Oscar Wilde |
| It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously. Oscar Wilde Adages |
| It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. . . . The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. Oscar Wilde |
| It is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Oscar Wilde |
| It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information. Oscar Wilde |
| It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. Oscar Wilde |
| It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal Oscar Wilde Popular Quotes |
| It is an odd thing, but every one who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and possess all the attractions of the next world. Oscar Wilde Quotations |
| It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way. Oscar Wilde |
| It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly. Oscar Wilde Popular Quotes |
| It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. Oscar Wilde |
| It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it Oscar Wilde Remarks |
| It is grossly selfish to require of one's neighbour that he should think in the same way, and hold the same opinions. Why should he? If he can think, he will probably think differently. If he cannot think, it is monstrous to require thought of any kind. Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| It is he who has broken the bond of marriage, not I. I only break its bondage. Oscar Wilde |
| It is only about things that do not interest one, that one can give a really unbiased opinion; and this is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always valueless. Oscar Wilde |
| It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes. Oscar Wilde |
| It is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologize to one in private for what they have written against one in public Oscar Wilde Quotations |
| It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue. Oscar Wilde |
| It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned. Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the steps of most artists is that they realise their ideal too absolutely. For, when the ideal is realised, it is robbed of its wonder and its mystery, and becomes simply a new starting-point for an ideal that is other than itself. Oscar Wilde Popular Quotes |
| It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution Oscar Wilde |
| It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors Oscar Wilde |
| It is through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; through Art and Art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence Oscar Wilde |
| It is through Art, and through Art only, that we can realise our perfection. Oscar Wilde |
| It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produced a false impression. Oscar Wilde Remarks |
| It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it. Oscar Wilde Sayings |
| It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style. Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing Oscar Wilde |
It will be a marvellous thing - the true personality of man - when we see it. It will grow naturally and simply, flower-like, or as a tree grows. It will not be at discord. It will never argue or dispute. It will not prove things. It will know everything. And yet it will not busy itself about knowledge. It will have wisdom. Its value will not be measured by material things. It will have nothing. And yet it will have everything, and whatever one takes from it, it will still have, so rich will it be. It will not be always meddling with others, or asking them to be like itself. It will love them because they will be different. And yet, while it will not meddle with others, it will help all, as a beautiful thing helps us by being what it is. The personality of man will be very wonderful. It will be as wonderful as the personality of a child.
In its development it will be assisted by Christianity, if men desire that; but if men do not desire that, it will develop none the less surely. For it will not worry itself about the past, nor care whether things happened or did not happen. Nor will it admit any laws but its own laws; nor any authority but its own authority. Yet it will love those who sought to intensify it, and speak often of them. And of these Christ was one.
"Know Thyself" was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, "Be Thyself" shall be written. And the message of Christ to man was simply "Be Thyself." That is the secret of Christ. Oscar Wilde |
| It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame. Oscar Wilde Quotations |
| Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. Oscar Wilde |
| Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist Oscar Wilde Adages |
| Judges, like the criminal classes, have their lighter moments Oscar Wilde Quotations |
| Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. Oscar Wilde |
| Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring. Oscar Wilde |
| Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| Lewis Morris: "It is a conspiracy of silence against me - a conspiracy of silence! What should I do?" Oscar Wilde: "Join it Oscar Wilde |
| Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets. Oscar Wilde Sayings |
| Life imitates art far more than art imitates life. Oscar Wilde |
| Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about. Oscar Wilde |
| Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not. Oscar Wilde Quotations |
| Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibers, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams. Oscar Wilde Adages |
| Life is one fool thing after another where as love is two fool things after each other. Oscar Wilde Adages |
| Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other. Oscar Wilde |
| Life is too important to be taken seriously. Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments. Oscar Wilde |
| Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but molds it to its purpose. Oscar Wilde |
| Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose. The nineteenth century, as we know it, is largely an invention of Balzac. Oscar Wilde |
| Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. Oscar Wilde Quotations |
| Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. Oscar Wilde Remarks |
| Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not. Oscar Wilde |
LORD GORING:
My father told me to go to bed an hour ago. I don't see why I shouldn't give you the same advice. I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself. Oscar Wilde |
| Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two. Oscar Wilde |
| Love is a misunderstanding between two fools. Oscar Wilde Sayings |
| Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are; by which we can see life as a whole: by which and which alone, we can understand others in their real as in their ideal relations. Oscar Wilde Popular Quotes |
| Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. Oscar Wilde Adages |
| Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. Oscar Wilde Quotes |
| Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt. Oscar Wilde Quotations |
| Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree Oscar Wilde |
| Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Oscar Wilde |
| Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Oscar Wilde |
| Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us Oscar Wilde |
| Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a mans last romance. Oscar Wilde |
| Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We woman have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance. Oscar Wilde Quotations |
| Men always want to be a woman's first love; women have a more subtle instinct: what they like is to be a man's last romance. Oscar Wilde Adages |
| Men become old, but they never become good Oscar Wilde Quotations |
| Men can be analyzed, women merely adored. Oscar Wilde |
| Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed. Oscar Wilde |
| Mere colour, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways. Oscar Wilde Popular Quotes |
| Misfortunes one can endure - they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults - ah! there is the Sting of life. Oscar Wilde |
| Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not Oscar Wilde Adages |
| Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. Oscar Wilde |
| Moderation is a fatal thing; nothing succeeds like excess. Oscar Wilde |
| Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. Oscar Wilde Quotations |
| Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike. Oscar Wilde Adages |
| Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace. Oscar Wilde |
| Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualification |
