Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others.
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Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
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Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.
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Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
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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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Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One must eat muffins quite calmly, it is the only way to eat them.
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I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly.
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To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
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What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul.
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There is no man who is not, at each moment, what he has been and what he will be.
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As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg.
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When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.
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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
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I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.
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I must remember that a good friend is a new world.
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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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And all, but Lust, is turned to dustIn Humanity's machine.
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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
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I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
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A chemist on each side will approach the frontier with a bottle.
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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.
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The study of law is sublime, and its practice vulgar.