Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I have a dining room done in different shades of white, with white cushions embroidered in yellow silk: the effect is absolutely delightful and the room beautiful.
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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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After the first glass you see things as you wish they were. After the second glass you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.
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A mask tells us more than a face.
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I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.
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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
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Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.
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Life is a great disappointment.
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Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.
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Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.
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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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My own business always bores me to death. I prefer other people's.
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Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure.
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I can believe anything as long as it is incredible.
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Where your life leads you, you must go.
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If you cannot prove a man wrong, don't panic. You can always call him names.
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Reforms in Russia are very tragic, but they always end in a farce.
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It can never be necessary to do what is not honourable.
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Sometimes, the unnecessary is necessary.
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An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.
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Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.
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The study of law is sublime, and its practice vulgar.
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In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.
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The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.