Oscar Wilde Quotes
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If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.
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Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.
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Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.
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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
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I could never quite accustom myself to absinthe, but it suits my style so well.
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No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
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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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The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.
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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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Aestheticism is a search after the signs of the beautiful. It is the science of the beautiful through which men seek the correlation of the arts. It is, to speak more exactly, the search after the secret of life.
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Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
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One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders. Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it.
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I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
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God and other artists are always a little obscure....
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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 you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
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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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Only the shallow know themselves.
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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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Alone, and without any reference to his neighbours, without any interference, the artist can fashion a beautiful thing; and if he does not do it solely for his own pleasure, he is not an artist at all.
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My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.
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The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance. The only thing that can console one for being rich is economy.
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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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For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.