Oscar Wilde Quotes
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In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives.
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The final mystery is oneself.
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Be yourself; everyone else is taken.
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Her trust makes me faithful, her belief makes me good.
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She knew nothing but she had everything he had lost.
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To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.
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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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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
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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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Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.
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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date.
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Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.
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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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There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
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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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To be entirely free, and at the same time, entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life that we realise at every moment.
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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
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Travel ennobles the spirit and does away with our prejudices.
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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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Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.
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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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Create yourself. Be yourself your poem.
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To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.