Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
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Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
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There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love.
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Things last either too long, or not long enough.
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The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
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Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.
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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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If you cannot prove a man wrong, don't panic. You can always call him names.
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Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.
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Where your life leads you, you must go.
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To be premature is to be perfect.
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Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.
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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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As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg.
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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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The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.
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Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.
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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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Love is easily killed.
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It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces false impression.
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I drink to separate my body from my soul.
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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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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.