Oscar Wilde Quotes
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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
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A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.
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Nothing that actually occurs is of the smallest importance.
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With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.
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When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
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When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.
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Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.
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In married life three is company and two none.
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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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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
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Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.
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Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.
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Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
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And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life.
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A burnt child loves the fire.
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The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
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Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so.
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Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.
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To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
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Give me the luxuries and I can dispense with the necessities.
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One should never make one's debut in a scandal. One should reserve that to give interest to one's old age.
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Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.