Oscar Wilde Quotes
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To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies.
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Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.
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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
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Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
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If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.
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Irony is wasted on the stupid.
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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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Marriage is a long, dull meal with dessert served at the beginning.
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Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!
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People say sometimes that Beauty is superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is. To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
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To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
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Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination.
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Wisdom is to have dreams big enough not to lose sight when we pursue them.
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
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A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
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If we're always guided by other people's thoughts, what's the point in having our own?
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Some things are more precious because they don't last long.
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I really don’t see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
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Without order nothing can exist-without chaos nothing can evolve. Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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Women treat us men like humanity treats gods – they worship us and keep bothering us to do something.
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Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.
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I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.
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The story of mankind began in a garden and ended in revelations.