Oscar Wilde Quotes
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And all, but Lust, is turned to dustIn Humanity's machine.
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Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.
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Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
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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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I never saw so many well-dressed, well-fed, business-looking Bohemians in my life.
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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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'She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses,' cried the young Student; 'but in all my garden there is no red rose.'
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Learn to differentiate between ignorance and stupidity.
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A chemist on each side will approach the frontier with a bottle.
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The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
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I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.
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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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The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet’s dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.
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You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.
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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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Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
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Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive.
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Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.
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Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the conscientiousness of the illiterate give us accurate and prosaic details. . .
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Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.
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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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Reforms in Russia are very tragic, but they always end in a farce.
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Wisdom comes with winters.
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The study of law is sublime, and its practice vulgar.