Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
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The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
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Sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it.
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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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Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.
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The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it.
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Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life.
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The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.
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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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A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
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If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture...In a house, we all feel of the proper proportions. Everything is subordinated to us, fashioned for our use and our pleasure.
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Millionaire models are rare enough; but, by Jove, model millionaires are rarer still!
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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 mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
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The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.
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However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive.
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If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
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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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The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
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Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.
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It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
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Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.
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There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
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Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.