Oscar Wilde Quotes
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The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
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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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This woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night.
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Millionaire models are rare enough; but, by Jove, model millionaires are rarer still!
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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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Sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it.
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Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life.
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The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
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The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it.
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The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.
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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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Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.
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If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
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A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
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In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.
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We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
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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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I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.
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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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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.
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The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly deceived.
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The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
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It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.