Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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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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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Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.
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I could never quite accustom myself to absinthe, but it suits my style so well.
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In the wild struggle for existance, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.
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Caricature is the tribute that mediocrity pays to genius.
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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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A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.
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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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My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.
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The great events of the world take place in the brain...
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Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman - or the want of it in the man.
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The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
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Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.
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Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life.
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If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.
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I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.
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The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me.
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We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
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How does one cure the soul? Through the senses.
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However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive.
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Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
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Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
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When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy.