Oscar Wilde Quotes
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The final mystery is oneself.
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Travel ennobles the spirit and does away with our prejudices.
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To get into the best society nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people.
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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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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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Pleasure without Champagne is purely artificial.
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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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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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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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Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.
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One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.
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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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I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly.
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Public opinion exists only where there are no ideas.
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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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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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'She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses,' cried the young Student; 'but in all my garden there is no red rose.'
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The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.
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The only thing worse than quoting me, is not quoting me.
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There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.
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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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Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight For the greatest tragedy of them all Is never to feel the burning light.
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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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To know anything about oneself one must know all about others.