Oscar Wilde Quotes
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It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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To know anything about oneself one must know all about others.
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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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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
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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 was wrong. God's law is only Love.
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Those who have much are often greedy; those who have little often share.
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All trials are trials for one’s life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.
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Whenever life sucks, remember you're going to die someday.
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The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance. The only thing that can console one for being rich is economy.
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The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.
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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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Too much work, and no vacation, Deserves at least a small libation. So hail! my friends, and raise your glasses, Work's the curse of the drinking classes.
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I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.
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Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories.
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They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.
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Loveless marriages are horrible. But there is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one side only; faith, but on one side only; devotion, but on one side only, and in which of the two hearts one is sure to be broken.