Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Any place you love is the world to you.
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A woman who cannot make her mistakes charming, is only a female.
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As for a spoiled life, no life is spoiled but one whose growth is arrested.
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Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.
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Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight For the greatest tragedy of them all Is never to feel the burning light.
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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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You might see nothing in him. I see everything in him.
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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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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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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
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It is always the unreadable that occurs.
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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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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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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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A mask tells us more than a face.
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Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
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Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.
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To be popular I must be mediocre.
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The ages live in history through their anachronisms.
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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.
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The only thing in the world worse than being Oscar Wilde is not being Oscar Wilde.
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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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I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.
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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.