Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.
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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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If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well. If it is worth having, it is worth waiting for. If it is worth attaining, it is worth fighting for. If it is worth experiencing, it is worth putting aside time for.
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Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
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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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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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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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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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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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Even things that are true can be proved.
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No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
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Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.
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You should never give a woman something she can't wear in the evening.
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The best revenge is to live well.
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Marriage is a long, dull meal with dessert served at the beginning.
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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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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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The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers. The trouble with men is, that they don't.
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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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I don't want to earn my living, I want to live.
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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.