Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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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She knew nothing but she had everything he had lost.
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One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
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Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.
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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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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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My dear fellow, the truth isn't quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl.
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Be yourself; everyone else is taken.
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Nowadays, saying what you really think can be a serious error since one risks being misunderstood.
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I see that any materialism in life coarsens the soul, and that the hunger of the body and the appetites of the flesh desecrate always, and often destroy.
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The essence of thought, as the essence of life, is growth.
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Those who have much are often greedy; those who have little often share.
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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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But I am afraid that we are beginning to be over-educated; at least everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
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Public opinion exists only where there are no ideas.
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As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.