Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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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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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There is no man who is not, at each moment, what he has been and what he will be.
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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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I must remember that a good friend is a new world.
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Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous.
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The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
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Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.
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The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious...
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Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.
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Reforms in Russia are very tragic, but they always end in a farce.
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I drink to separate my body from my soul.
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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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Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive.
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Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
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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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Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
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I never saw so many well-dressed, well-fed, business-looking Bohemians in my life.
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You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter - a girl brought up with the utmost care - to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel?
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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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In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.
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Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.
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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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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.