Oscar Wilde Quotes
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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
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He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
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The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.
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Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything. Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it.
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What a fuss people make about fidelity! Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.
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The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.
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To get back to my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
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If you want to be witty, say what you think at all times.
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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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Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.
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When private property is abolished there will be no necessity for crime, no demand for it; it will cease to exist.
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A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it.
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I never put off till tomorrow what I can do the day after.
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Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something.
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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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Love! What is love? It's nothing. It's just a word. It doesn't exist. Only pleasure is important.
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There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would be if you were wasted.
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Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.
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Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals, and, in its opinion, the highest respectability is of much less value than the possession of a good chef.
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I've now realized for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.
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It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.
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The world belongs to the discontented.
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All love is true, but not all truth ... is love?
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It is to do nothing that the elect exist. Action is limited and relative. Unlimited and absolute is the vision of him who sits at ease and watches, who walks in loneliness and dreams.