Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.
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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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One should always be a little improbable.
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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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Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.
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Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.
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The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me.
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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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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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Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.
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It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.
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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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The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
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We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.
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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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Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.
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The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
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There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose.
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The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.
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To be entirely free, and at the same time, entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life that we realise at every moment.
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A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten.
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Some people always know the price, but not the value.
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God and other artists are always a little obscure....