Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.
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Now, nothing should be able to harm a man except himself. Nothing should be able to rob a man at all. What a man really has, is what is in him. What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance.
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He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.
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Those who have much are often greedy; those who have little often share.
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Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We woman have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance.
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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
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When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand.
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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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Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.
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We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.
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Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
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Millionaire models are rare enough; but, by Jove, model millionaires are rarer still!
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The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.
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And if it feels good... Feel it!
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For, try as we may, we cannot get behind the appearence of things to reality. And the terrible reason may be that there is no reality in the things apart from their appearences.
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Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.
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England has done one thing; it has invented and established Public Opinion, which is an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.
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'Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.
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The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance. The only thing that can console one for being rich is economy.
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What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.
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I see that any materialism in life coarsens the soul, and that the hunger of the body and the appetites of the flesh desecrate always, and often destroy.
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The things people say of a man do not alter a man. He is what he is. Public opinion is of no value whatsoever.
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Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.
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They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.