Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
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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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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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To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.
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The secret of life is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.
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Sooner or later we have all to pay for what we do.
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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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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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Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people.
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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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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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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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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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Always be a little unexpected.
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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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We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.
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Imitation is the homage mediocrity pays to greatness.
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Experience is a question of instinct about life.
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
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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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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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In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.
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The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
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Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.