Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.
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Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.
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Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded.
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The final mystery is oneself.
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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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Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.
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It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; Through Art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.
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It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.
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Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.
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I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.
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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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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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We spend our days, each one of us, in looking for the secret of life. Well, the secret of life is in Art.
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Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
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Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.
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A woman who cannot make her mistakes charming, is only a female.
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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.
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The only thing in the world worse than being Oscar Wilde is not being Oscar Wilde.
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One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.
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Love is not fashionable anymore; the poets have killed it.
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The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.
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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.
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The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart — hearts are made to be broken — but that it turns one’s heart to stone.
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Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.