Oscar Wilde Quotes
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The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly deceived.
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Some people always know the price, but not the value.
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A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do.
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There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God.
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If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
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If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.
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People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
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But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.
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It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.
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To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.
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The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.
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They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist.
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By persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful.
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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
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As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.
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No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
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Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.
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I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.
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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.
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A man who can dominate a London dinner table can dominate the world. The future belongs to the dandy. It is the exquisites who are going to rule.
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If people were meant to be nude, they would have been born this way.
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The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me.
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This too I know-and wise it wereIf each could know the same-That every prison that men buildIs built with bricks of shame,And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.
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Just because a man has died for it, does not make it true.