Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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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He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.
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It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming.
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Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.
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Alas! it is a fearful thing To feel another's guilt!
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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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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
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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 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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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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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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A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
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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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It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously.
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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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It is always the unreadable that occurs.
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No art ever survived censorship; no art ever will.
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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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My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.
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The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles me.
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We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it.