Oscar Wilde Quotes
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All bad art is the result of good intentions.
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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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The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.
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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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'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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It is an odd thing, but every one who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and possess all the attractions of the next world.
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No art ever survived censorship; no art ever will.
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Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful.
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There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.
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It is perfectly possible to get what you think you want and be miserable. It's possible too, to never get it but deeply enjoy the process of trying. In this world, there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
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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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The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.
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Always be a little unexpected.
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To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.
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The artistic life is a long, lovely suicide.
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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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The secret of life is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.
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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
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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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Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.
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Always keep love in your heart.
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We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.
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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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Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It's perfectly childish to be in mourning for a man who is actually staying a whole week with you in your house as a guest. I call it grotesque.