Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such indecent postures.
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The only form of lying that is absolutely beyond reproach is lying for its own sake.
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Ah, nowadays we are all of us so hard up, that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They're the only things we can pay.
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Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.
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Children have a natural antipathy to books - handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous.
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The world belongs to the discontented.
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No man should have a secret from his wife. She invariably finds it out.
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Everything in moderation, including moderation.
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That beauty which is meant by art is no mere accident of human life which people can take or leave, but a positive necessity of life if we are to live as nature meant us to, that is to say unless we are content to be less than men.
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Life is like a box of terrible analogies...
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Pleasure is the test of nature, its approval sign.
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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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Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.
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Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.
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The evil that machinery is doing is not merely in the consequence of its work but in the fact that it makes men themselves machines also.
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Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
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It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces false impression.
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Nature constantly imitates art.
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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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I have a dining room done in different shades of white, with white cushions embroidered in yellow silk: the effect is absolutely delightful and the room beautiful.
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A live unexamined isn't worth living. I will add, "A life unlived isn't worth examining"
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I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
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There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make one almost enamoured of death, or one of those nights of horror and misshapen joy, when through the chambers of the brain sweep phantoms more terrible than reality itself, and instinct with that vivid life that lurks in all grotesques, and that lends to Gothic art its enduring vitality, this art being, one might fancy, especially the art of those whose minds have been troubled with the malady of reverie.
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Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.