Oscar Wilde Quotes
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The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
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If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture...In a house, we all feel of the proper proportions. Everything is subordinated to us, fashioned for our use and our pleasure.
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One should always be a little improbable.
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There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God.
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It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
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There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose.
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Everything that is popular is wrong.
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Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.
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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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One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
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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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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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The essence of thought, as the essence of life, is growth.
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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.
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The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
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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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Be yourself; everyone else is taken.
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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.