Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Imitation is the homage mediocrity pays to greatness.
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The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.
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We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it.
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Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.
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Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art.
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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.
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Insincerity is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.
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My wish isn't to mean everything to everyone but something to someone.
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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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Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
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Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.
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Love is not fashionable anymore; the poets have killed it.
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The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
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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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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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The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles me.
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Lo! with a little rodI did but touch the honey of romance -And must I lose a soul's inheritance?
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Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
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Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or shed tears. But in real life it is different. Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. Our Guildensterns play Hamlet for us, and our Hamlets have to jest like Prince Hal. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
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An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.
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Good taste is the excuse I have given for leading such a bad life.
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Life is a great disappointment.
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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.