Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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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My philosophy? I'm always right and you are wrong.
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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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I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.
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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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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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The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.
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I see that any materialism in life coarsens the soul, and that the hunger of the body and the appetites of the flesh desecrate always, and often destroy.
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We live, I regret to say, in an age of Big Data hype.
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The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.
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The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.
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Nowadays, saying what you really think can be a serious error since one risks being misunderstood.
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Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
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Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.
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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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England has done one thing; it has invented and established Public Opinion, which is an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.
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One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
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What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.
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When a voice behind me whispered low,'That fellow's got to swing.'
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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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Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
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As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.
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A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.
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Those who have much are often greedy; those who have little often share.