Oscar Wilde Quotes
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You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.
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Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar.
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He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.
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The only sin is stupidity.
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The one advantage of playing with fire...is that no one ever gets singed. It is the people who don't know how to play with it who get burned up.
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People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards.
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Never so sweet a repast as the Reaper's when you tread upon the threshold of a Quiznos.
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A truly good woman comes in only two types: One who knows nothing and the other who knows everything.
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What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise in the future. But only if we set out to make this true and anticipate it so we look for the blessings until we find them.
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You should study the Peerage, Gerald. It is the one book a young man about town should know thoroughly, and it is the best thing in fiction the English have ever done.
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Friendship never forgets. That is the wonderful thing about it.
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There are few things easier than to live badly and die well.
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Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin, but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building.
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Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.
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The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the highest form of literature, Poetry, brings no wealth to the singer.
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If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.
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Bad manners make a journalist.
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A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.
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I like my food dry. Not sick, not even dying, dead.
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A sentimentalist—is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market price of any single thing.
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I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind and take its place with the other terrible thoughts that gnaw me.
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Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob. It is through the voice of one crying in the wilderness that the ways of the gods must be prepared.
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M. Zola is determined to show that, if he has not got genius, he can at least be dull.
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Ah, on what little things does happiness depend.