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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No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.
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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
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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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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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It is a much cleverer thing to talk nonsense than to listen to it.
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Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it.
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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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We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.
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Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
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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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God and other artists are always a little obscure....
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To be entirely free, and at the same time, entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life that we realise at every moment.
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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 absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
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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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Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
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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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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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I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.