Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Life is a nightmare that prevents one from sleeping.
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A grapefruit is just a lemon that saw an opportunity and took advantage of it.
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The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.
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Nature is always behind the age.
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The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the guise of fiction.
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What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colourless.
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Fashion: by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.
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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.
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Wisdom is to have dreams big enough not to lose sight when we pursue them.
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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.
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Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men.
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He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both.
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As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
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In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
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When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
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If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
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Psychology is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.
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Common sense is the enemy of Romance.
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I have never learned anything except from people younger than myself.
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I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.
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Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.
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Starvation, and not sin, is the parent of modern crime.
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The only way a woman can ever reform her husband is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.
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Art never expresses anything but itself.