Oscar Wilde Quotes
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My wish isn't to mean everything to everyone but something to someone.
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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 His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.
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Life is a great disappointment.
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Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
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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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I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly.
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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 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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An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.
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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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A mask tells us more than a face.
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To be popular I must be mediocre.
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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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A woman who cannot make her mistakes charming, is only a female.
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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.
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Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.
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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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There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.