Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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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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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My philosophy? I'm always right and you are wrong.
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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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Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.
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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
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Just because a man has died for it, does not make it true.
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The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.
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Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
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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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The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.
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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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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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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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It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.
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Those who have much are often greedy; those who have little often share.
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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
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Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.
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Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.
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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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For a sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.
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Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
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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.