Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Women are made to be loved, not understood.
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The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.
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The fact is, that civilisation requires slaves. The Greeks were quite right there. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.
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The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.
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Hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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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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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.
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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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It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.
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The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.
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Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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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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Full frontal nudity is reserved for Adam and Eve!
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Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
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I can't stand people that do not take food seriously.
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
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If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.
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Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.
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Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing.
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Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
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Charity creates a multitude of sins.