Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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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Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.
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After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not my own.
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When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.
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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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The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.
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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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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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An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.
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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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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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Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
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Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.
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To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies.
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History is a lie commonly agreed upon.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
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The English have a miraculous power of turning wine into water.
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Only love can keep anyone alive...
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One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
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Simple pleasures are always the last refuge of the complex.
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The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.
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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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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.