Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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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Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others.
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Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
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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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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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Insincerity is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.
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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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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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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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My wish isn't to mean everything to everyone but something to someone.
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One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
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To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.
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A woman who cannot make her mistakes charming, is only a female.
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Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.
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Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.
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Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.
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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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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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If you are going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh or they will kill you.
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The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.
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A chemist on each side will approach the frontier with a bottle.
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The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in man That wastes and withers there; Pale Anguish keeps the heavy gate And the Warder is Despair.
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Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.
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Love is not fashionable anymore; the poets have killed it.