Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Always be a little unexpected.
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My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.
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It is always the unreadable that occurs.
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We are specially designed to appeal to the sense of humour.
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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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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 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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Always keep love in your heart.
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Good taste is the excuse I have given for leading such a bad life.
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'Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.
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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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True love is just like regular love, but with more truth.
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The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious...
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Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art.
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Learn to differentiate between ignorance and stupidity.
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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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Experience is a question of instinct about life.
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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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My wish isn't to mean everything to everyone but something to someone.
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Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.
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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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It is what we fear that happens to us.
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Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
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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.