Oscar Wilde Quotes
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There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God.
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Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.
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The aim of love is to love. No more, no less.
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This too I know-and wise it wereIf each could know the same-That every prison that men buildIs built with bricks of shame,And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.
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We are specially designed to appeal to the sense of humour.
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I was wrong. God's law is only Love.
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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
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To know anything about oneself one must know all about others.
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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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The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.
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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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Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .
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Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.
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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.
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Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.
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Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.
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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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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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Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak.... They are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
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A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
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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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The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.
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When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand.
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We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.