Oscar Wilde Quotes
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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
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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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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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God and other artists are always a little obscure....
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Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.
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Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.
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Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
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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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I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
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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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I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
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Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak.... They are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
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Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.
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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.
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Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it.
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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
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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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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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Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven’t got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
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It is a much cleverer thing to talk nonsense than to listen to it.
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She lives the poetry she cannot write.
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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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Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.
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Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.