Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.
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I am afraid that woman appreciate cruelty, downright cruelty, more than anything else. They have wonderfully primitive instincts. We have emancipated them, but they remain slaves looking for their masters, all the same. They love being dominated.
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Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
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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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The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.
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If people were meant to be nude, they would have been born this way.
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I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly.
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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
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We live, I regret to say, in an age of Big Data hype.
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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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'She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses,' cried the young Student; 'but in all my garden there is no red rose.'
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Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
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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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The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.
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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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Those who have much are often greedy; those who have little often share.
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Just because a man has died for it, does not make it true.
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My philosophy? I'm always right and you are wrong.
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
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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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When a voice behind me whispered low,'That fellow's got to swing.'
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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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There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.