Oscar Wilde Quotes
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The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.
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If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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Nowadays we are all of us so hard up, that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They're the only things we can pay.
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Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
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I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them? They seem, as a class, to have absolutely no sense of moral responsibility.
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Even things that are true can be proved.
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Marriage is a long, dull meal with dessert served at the beginning.
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No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
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You should never give a woman something she can't wear in the evening.
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Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
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Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
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People say sometimes that Beauty is superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is. To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
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A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
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Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.
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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
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Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.
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I don't want to earn my living, I want to live.
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Those whom the gods love grow young.