Oscar Wilde Quotes
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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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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 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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The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.
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I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.
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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
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The best revenge is to live well.
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Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
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Those whom the gods love grow young.
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I don't want to earn my living, I want to live.
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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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The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to make one's every dream a reality.
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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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Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.
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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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Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.
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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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You never mean a single word you say.
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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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No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
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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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Some things are more precious because they don't last long.
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It is awfully hard work doing nothing.