Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.
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No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
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Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.
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Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself: the outward rendered expressive of the inward: the soul made incarnate: the body instinct with spirit. For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life.
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I don't play accurately — any one can play accurately — but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.
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Each of us has heaven and hell in him...
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Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
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The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty and to someone else if she is plain.
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Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
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I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
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Marriage is a long, dull meal with dessert served at the beginning.
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Nowadays we are all of us so hard up, that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They're the only things we can pay.
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Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .
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Why was I born with such contemporaries?
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Divorces are made in Heaven.
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.
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When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
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Yes, there is a terrible moral in 'Dorian Gray' - a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.
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A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.