Oscar Wilde Quotes
-
I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism.
-
An opinion is not necesarily correct just because you're willing to die for it.
-
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.
-
The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.
-
It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.
-
I have never given adoration to anyone except myself.
-
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.
-
It is very vulgar to talk about one's own business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then only at dinner parties.
-
You can fake intelligence, but you can't fake wit.
-
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.
-
Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.
-
The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles me.
-
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.
-
And if it feels good... Feel it!
-
Everything that is popular is wrong.
-
The aim of love is to love. No more, no less.
-
Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich.
-
Whenever life sucks, remember you're going to die someday.
-
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.
-
Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
-
I was wrong. God's law is only Love.
-
And all, but Lust, is turned to dustIn Humanity's machine.
-
You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing.
-
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.