Oscar Wilde Quotes
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The world is made by the singer for the dreamer.
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Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.
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I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.
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Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.
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Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
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Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
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The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
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There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
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However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive.
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Some things are more precious because they don't last long.
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Women are made to be loved, not understood.
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Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.
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I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.
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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
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It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words.
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There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
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People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies and to select our virtues with as much thought as we bestow upon the selection of our enemies.
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A kiss may ruin a human life.
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The final revelation is that Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.
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I am afraid that woman appreciate cruelty, downright cruelty, more than anything else. They have wonderfully primitive instincts. We have emancipated them, but they remain slaves looking for their masters, all the same. They love being dominated.
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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.