Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I have never learned anything except from people younger than myself.
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Fashion: by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.
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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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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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Talent borrows, genius steals!
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I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.
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In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
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To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.
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Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
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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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The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.
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I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
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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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The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.
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In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential.
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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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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
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Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.
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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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Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.