Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I have never given adoration to anyone except myself.
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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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An opinion is not necesarily correct just because you're willing to die for it.
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Always be a little unexpected.
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Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one center of pain.
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You can fake intelligence, but you can't fake wit.
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Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich.
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I was wrong. God's law is only Love.
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For, try as we may, we cannot get behind the appearence of things to reality. And the terrible reason may be that there is no reality in the things apart from their appearences.
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The aim of love is to love. No more, no less.
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I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism.
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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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And all, but Lust, is turned to dustIn Humanity's machine.
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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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Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.
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It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.
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I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!
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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 great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
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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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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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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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Good taste is the excuse I have given for leading such a bad life.
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We are specially designed to appeal to the sense of humour.