Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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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There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
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England has done one thing; it has invented and established Public Opinion, which is an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.
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One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.
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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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A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.
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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 only thing worse than quoting me, is not quoting me.
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What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.
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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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She knew nothing but she had everything he had lost.
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I am afraid that woman appreciate cruelty, downright cruelty, more than anything else. They have wonderfully primitive instincts. We have emancipated them, but they remain slaves looking for their masters, all the same. They love being dominated.
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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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What is said of a man is nothing. The point is, who says it.
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The essence of thought, as the essence of life, is growth.
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Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.
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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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As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.