Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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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Public opinion exists only where there are no ideas.
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
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I'll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister. Women only do that when they have called each other a lot of other things first.
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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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Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.
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The only thing worse than quoting me, is not quoting me.
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She knew nothing but she had everything he had lost.
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It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; Through Art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.
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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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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.
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The final mystery is oneself.
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I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
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Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.
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A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
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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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To know anything about oneself one must know all about others.
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The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.
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Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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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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Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded.
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Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight For the greatest tragedy of them all Is never to feel the burning light.