Oscar Wilde Quotes
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An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be.
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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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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
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And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats,None knew so well as I:For he who lives more lives than oneMore deaths than one must die.
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In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.
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It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
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The world has been made by fools that men should live in it.
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The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.
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Imitation is the homage mediocrity pays to greatness.
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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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I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
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There are as many perfections as there are imperfect men. And while to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all.
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I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly.
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All trials are trials for one’s life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.
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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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No art ever survived censorship; no art ever will.
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Whenever life sucks, remember you're going to die someday.
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The weather still continues charming.
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A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. ...Art is the most intense mode of Individualism that the world has known. I am inclined to say that it is the only real mode of Individualism that the world has known. ...Art is Individualism...
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In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives.
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The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.
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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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I was wrong. God's law is only Love.
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The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.