Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
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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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Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image.
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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
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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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The secret of life is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.
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Always be a little unexpected.
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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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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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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 better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.
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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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Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.
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Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance. She is a veil, rather than a mirror.
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Always keep love in your heart.
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I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
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In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
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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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Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
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Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.
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Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people.
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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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Experience is a question of instinct about life.