Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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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It is a much cleverer thing to talk nonsense than to listen to it.
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I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.
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Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it.
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Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
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Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.
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A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do.
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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
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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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There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
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No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.
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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
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One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
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For a sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.
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Her trust makes me faithful, her belief makes me good.
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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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Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
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Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
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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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I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
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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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For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.
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Travel ennobles the spirit and does away with our prejudices.