Oscar Wilde Quotes
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The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.
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And if it feels good... Feel it!
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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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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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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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Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
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Everything that is popular is wrong.
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Always be a little unexpected.
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I was wrong. God's law is only Love.
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
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Whenever life sucks, remember you're going to die someday.
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We are specially designed to appeal to the sense of humour.
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True love is just like regular love, but with more truth.
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Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
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Learn to differentiate between ignorance and stupidity.
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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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Experience is a question of instinct about life.
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He was a hero to his valet, who bullied him, and a terror to most of his relations, whom he bullied in turn. Only England could have produced him, and he always said that the country was going to the dogs. His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.
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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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To be popular I must be mediocre.
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Good taste is the excuse I have given for leading such a bad life.
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Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art.
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You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter - a girl brought up with the utmost care - to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel?
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Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.