Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven’t got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
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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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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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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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Everything that is popular is wrong.
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Public opinion exists only where there are no ideas.
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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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Create yourself. Be yourself your poem.
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It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming.
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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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There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
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Be yourself; everyone else is taken.
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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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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 a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.
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A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
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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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The essence of thought, as the essence of life, is growth.
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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
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Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
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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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To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.