Oscar Wilde Quotes
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It is difficult not to be unjust to what one loves.
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I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
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An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.
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The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.
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The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.
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Hatred is blind, as well as love.
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Simple pleasures are always the last refuge of the complex.
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For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.
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I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
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The answers are all out there, we just need to ask the right questions.
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When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.
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Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.
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To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.
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A beggar hates his benefactor as much as he hates himself for begging.
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To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies.
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Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.
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We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.
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And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame.
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Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.
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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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If only the picture could grow old, and I stay young. For that...for that, I would give my SOUL for that.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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The crude commercialism of America, its materialising spirit, its indifference to the poetical side of things, and its lack of imagination and of high unattainable ideals, are entirely due to that country having adopted for its national hero a man who, according to his own confession, was incapable of telling a lie, and it is not too much to say that the story of George Washington and the cherry-tree has done more harm, and in a shorter space of time, than any other moral tale in the whole of literature.