Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Everything that is popular is wrong.
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A man who can dominate a London dinner table can dominate the world. The future belongs to the dandy. It is the exquisites who are going to rule.
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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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Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.
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The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
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My philosophy? I'm always right and you are wrong.
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Whenever life sucks, remember you're going to die someday.
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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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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.
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One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
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No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.
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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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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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The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
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We live, I regret to say, in an age of Big Data hype.
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
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To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
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The essence of thought, as the essence of life, is growth.
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Medievalism, with its saints and martyrs, its love of self-torture, its wild passion for wounding itself, its gashing with knives, and its whipping with rods - Medievalism is real Christianity, and the medieval Christ is the real Christ.
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Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.
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Pleasure without Champagne is purely artificial.
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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.
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All trials are trials for one’s life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.
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I have never given adoration to anyone except myself.