Oscar Wilde Quotes
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life.
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I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.
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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 exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.
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This woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night.
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Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
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The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.
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Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.
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A kiss may ruin a human life.
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Make some sacrifice for your art and you will be repaid, but ask of art to sacrifice herself for you and a bitter disappointment may come to you.
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I am tired of myself to-night. I should like to be somebody else.
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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
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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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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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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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Sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it.
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Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.
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It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
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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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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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Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.
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The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.