Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.
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Something was dead in each of us,And what was dead was Hope.
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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
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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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The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
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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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To be premature is to be perfect.
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Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
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The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.
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There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannises over the body. There is the despot who tyrannises over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannises over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People.
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If you cannot prove a man wrong, don't panic. You can always call him names.
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Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.
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Love is easily killed.
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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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I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.
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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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Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.
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I drink to separate my body from my soul.
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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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Where your life leads you, you must go.
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Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.
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No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.
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Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.