Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.
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He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
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If we're always guided by other people's thoughts, what's the point in having our own?
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Women are made to be loved, not understood.
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In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.
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Irony is wasted on the stupid.
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If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them.
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Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.
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Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!
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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
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Even the disciple has his uses. He stands behind one's throne, and at the moment of one's triumph whispers in one's ear that, after all, one is immortal.
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Women treat us men like humanity treats gods – they worship us and keep bothering us to do something.
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There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
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Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination.
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The great events of the world take place in the brain...
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Full frontal nudity is reserved for Adam and Eve!
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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
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Charity creates a multitude of sins.
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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.
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The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.
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Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
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I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in silver mirrors. Later on, one sees the Gorgon's head, and one suffers, because it does not turn one to stone.
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A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.