Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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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When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy.
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No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
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Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
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Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.
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A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten.
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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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One should always be a little improbable.
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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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If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
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Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.
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Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.
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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 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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Some people always know the price, but not the value.
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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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It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.
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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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Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.
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My philosophy? I'm always right and you are wrong.
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A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do.
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The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me.