Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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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Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories.
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To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
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It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; Through Art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.
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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.
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She lives the poetry she cannot write.
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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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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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The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.
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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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Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .
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Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
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It is very vulgar to talk about one's own business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then only at dinner parties.
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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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Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.
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All bad art is the result of good intentions.
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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
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Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.
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I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.
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The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.
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Whenever life sucks, remember you're going to die someday.
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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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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
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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.