Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Circumstances should never alter principles!
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To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.
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I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism.
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We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.
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Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
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What is said of a man is nothing. The point is, who says it.
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The artistic life is a long, lovely suicide.
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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.
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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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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
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The world has been made by fools that men should live in it.
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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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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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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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All bad art is the result of good intentions.
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Experience is a question of instinct about life.
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Insincerity is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.
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Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.
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The secret of life is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.
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Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.
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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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The final mystery is oneself.
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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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Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.