Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
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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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You should never give a woman something she can't wear in the evening.
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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Marriage is a long, dull meal with dessert served at the beginning.
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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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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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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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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
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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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Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
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Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.
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Each of us has heaven and hell in him...
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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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If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. but if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly. If he shut the doors of the house of mourning against me, I would move back again and again and beg to be admitted so that I might share in what I was entitled to share. If he thought me unworthy, unfit to weep with him, I should feel it as the most poignant humiliation.
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To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
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Divorces are made in Heaven.
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When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.
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The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.
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Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .
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We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water can cleanse, that fire can purify, and that the Earth is mother to us all.
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Why was I born with such contemporaries?