Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Wisdom is to have dreams big enough not to lose sight when we pursue them.
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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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In war," answered the weaver, "the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor. We must work to live, and they give us such mean wages that we die. We toil for them all day long, and they heap up gold in their coffers, and our children fade away before their time, and the faces of those we love become hard and evil. We tread out the grapes, another drinks the wine. We sow the corn, and our own board is empty. We have chains, though no eye beholds them; and are slaves, though men call us free.
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Fashion: by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.
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Life is a nightmare that prevents one from sleeping.
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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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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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He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both.
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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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In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
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The answers are all out there, we just need to ask the right questions.
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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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When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
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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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Psychology is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.
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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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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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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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Common sense is the enemy of Romance.
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Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses - once.
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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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I have never learned anything except from people younger than myself.
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Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.