Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I am tired of myself to-night. I should like to be somebody else.
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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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It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
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Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.
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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
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The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
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Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
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The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
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It was only in the theatre that I lived.
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Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.
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I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.
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The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
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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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Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.
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The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
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People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies and to select our virtues with as much thought as we bestow upon the selection of our enemies.
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How does one cure the soul? Through the senses.
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Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
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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 reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
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The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.
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A kiss may ruin a human life.