Oscar Wilde Quotes
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When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
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Give me the luxuries and I can dispense with the necessities.
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We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water can cleanse, that fire can purify, and that the Earth is mother to us all.
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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
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The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty and to someone else if she is plain.
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All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life.
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I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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Yes, there is a terrible moral in 'Dorian Gray' - a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.
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It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.
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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
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With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.
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Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.
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In married life three is company and two none.
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In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.
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Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.
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Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.
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Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.
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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
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The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
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The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
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At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been.
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Finding the meaning of life is easy. Simply get a dictionary, go to the 'L' section, and find the word 'life.'
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The story of mankind began in a garden and ended in revelations.