Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
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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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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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The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
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Caricature is the tribute that mediocrity pays to genius.
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Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.
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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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It was only in the theatre that I lived.
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The great events of the world take place in the brain...
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The final revelation is that Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.
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The world is made by the singer for the dreamer.
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Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
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My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world.
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A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.
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Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.
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America is not a country, it is a world.
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There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
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All great ideas are dangerous.
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Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.
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The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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Do not forget that small daily actions do or undo character.