Oscar Wilde Quotes
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One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.
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The only thing worse than quoting me, is not quoting me.
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We live, I regret to say, in an age of Big Data hype.
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Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.
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I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
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She knew nothing but she had everything he had lost.
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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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Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.
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Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all you must not strip it of vitality. You must find it in life and re-create it in art.
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What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date.
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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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People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.
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Pleasure without Champagne is purely artificial.
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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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My dear fellow, the truth isn't quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl.
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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.
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Nowadays, saying what you really think can be a serious error since one risks being misunderstood.
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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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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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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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But I am afraid that we are beginning to be over-educated; at least everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
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There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.
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When a voice behind me whispered low,'That fellow's got to swing.'