Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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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It is what we fear that happens to us.
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Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.
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Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.
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You might see nothing in him. I see everything in him.
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The ages live in history through their anachronisms.
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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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To be popular I must be mediocre.
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Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.
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It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.
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Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
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I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.
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You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter - a girl brought up with the utmost care - to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel?
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Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.
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The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own.
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Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.
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Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.
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Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.
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Every woman is a rebel.
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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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If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.
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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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A mask tells us more than a face.
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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.