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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All bad art is the result of good intentions.
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It is a much cleverer thing to talk nonsense than to listen to it.
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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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My philosophy? I'm always right and you are wrong.
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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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Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.
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One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
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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.
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Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.
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The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.
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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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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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We live, I regret to say, in an age of Big Data hype.
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Those who have much are often greedy; those who have little often share.
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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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Only the shallow know themselves.
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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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There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
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Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.
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Now, nothing should be able to harm a man except himself. Nothing should be able to rob a man at all. What a man really has, is what is in him. What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance.
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Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.