Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Reforms in Russia are very tragic, but they always end in a farce.
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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
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A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
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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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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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I drink to separate my body from my soul.
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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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In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.
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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
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Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.
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It is what we fear that happens to us.
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You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
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He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best.
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Where your life leads you, you must go.
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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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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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Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.
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If you want to be witty, say what you think at all times.
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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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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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The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.
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I never put off till tomorrow what I can do the day after.