Oscar Wilde Quotes
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In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.
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Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London.
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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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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
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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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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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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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Hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.
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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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Full frontal nudity is reserved for Adam and Eve!
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The great events of the world take place in the brain...
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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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Caricature is the tribute that mediocrity pays to genius.
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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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Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
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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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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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You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
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Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!
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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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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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To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.
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A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.