Oscar Wilde Quotes
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The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in man That wastes and withers there; Pale Anguish keeps the heavy gate And the Warder is Despair.
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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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Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.
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Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.
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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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Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.
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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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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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Life is a great disappointment.
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I can believe anything as long as it is incredible.
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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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An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.
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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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Sometimes, the unnecessary is necessary.
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Reforms in Russia are very tragic, but they always end in a farce.
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Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure.
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The study of law is sublime, and its practice vulgar.
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The only thing in the world worse than being Oscar Wilde is not being Oscar Wilde.
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The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.