Oscar Wilde Quotes
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We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it.
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A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
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You know I have loved him always. But we are very poor. Who, being loved, is poor? Oh, no one. I hate my riches. They are a burden...
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.
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For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about its comedies, and its tragedies seem to culminate in farce.
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What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
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I drink to separate my body from my soul.
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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
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Where your life leads you, you must go.
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Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.
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He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best.
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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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The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.
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To be good is to be in harmony with oneself. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.
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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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All love is true, but not all truth ... is love?
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
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Time is a waste of money.
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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.