Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
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The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.
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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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It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously.
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Loveless marriages are horrible. But there is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one side only; faith, but on one side only; devotion, but on one side only, and in which of the two hearts one is sure to be broken.
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It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.
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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 man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.
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The weather still continues charming.
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Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.
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An opinion is not necesarily correct just because you're willing to die for it.
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Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
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The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
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Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.
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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
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Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.
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Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.
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No art ever survived censorship; no art ever will.
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All bad art is the result of good intentions.
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I have never given adoration to anyone except myself.
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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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The artistic life is a long, lovely suicide.
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Alas! it is a fearful thing To feel another's guilt!
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The world has been made by fools that men should live in it.