Oscar Wilde Quotes
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If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
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The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
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Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.
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Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.
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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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The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly deceived.
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God and other artists are always a little obscure....
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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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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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Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.
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There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.
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The only thing worse than quoting me, is not quoting me.
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A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating.
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When a voice behind me whispered low,'That fellow's got to swing.'
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Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.
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Public opinion exists only where there are no ideas.
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If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.
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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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It is a much cleverer thing to talk nonsense than to listen to it.
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Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
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It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming.
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What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date.
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Nowadays, saying what you really think can be a serious error since one risks being misunderstood.
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I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.