Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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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The essence of thought, as the essence of life, is growth.
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Be yourself; everyone else is taken.
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What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date.
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Her trust makes me faithful, her belief makes me good.
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All bad art is the result of good intentions.
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Travel ennobles the spirit and does away with our prejudices.
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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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Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.
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Pleasure without Champagne is purely artificial.
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A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating.
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To get into the best society nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people.
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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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What is said of a man is nothing. The point is, who says it.
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Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories.
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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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The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.
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Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.
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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.
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There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.