Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
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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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Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.
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We live, I regret to say, in an age of Big Data hype.
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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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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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Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.
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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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The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.
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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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I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.
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The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.
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A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.
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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.
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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
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Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
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I have never given adoration to anyone except myself.
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Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.
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The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.
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The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
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Create yourself. Be yourself your poem.
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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 value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.