Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.
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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.
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Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.
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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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When a voice behind me whispered low,'That fellow's got to swing.'
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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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To get into the best society nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people.
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I'll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister. Women only do that when they have called each other a lot of other things first.
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Pleasure without Champagne is purely artificial.
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The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance. The only thing that can console one for being rich is economy.
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What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date.
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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 many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
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Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven’t got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
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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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We live, I regret to say, in an age of Big Data hype.
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Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
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You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
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The only thing worse than quoting me, is not quoting me.
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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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Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.
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Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient History, supplies us with many most painful examples of what I refer to. If it were not so, indeed, History would be quite unreadable.