Oscar Wilde Quotes
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The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it.
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A kiss may ruin a human life.
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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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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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Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.
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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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However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive.
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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 advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
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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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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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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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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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The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.
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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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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.
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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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Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!
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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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There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
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The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
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I could never quite accustom myself to absinthe, but it suits my style so well.
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The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one.