Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.
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Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
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Sooner or later we have all to pay for what we do.
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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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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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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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London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don't know.
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Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.
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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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We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it.
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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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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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The first duty of life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one as yet discovered.
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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
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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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Lo! with a little rodI did but touch the honey of romance -And must I lose a soul's inheritance?
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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
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One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.
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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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A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
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No art ever survived censorship; no art ever will.
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There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.
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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.