Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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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It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.
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Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.
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The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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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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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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A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do.
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If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.
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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
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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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Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
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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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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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Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.
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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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No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
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Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient History, supplies us with many most painful examples of what I refer to. If it were not so, indeed, History would be quite unreadable.
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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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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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God and other artists are always a little obscure....
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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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Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.
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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.