Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Art never expresses anything but itself.
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Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.
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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 moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
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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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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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A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
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Nature is always behind the age.
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It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
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To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.
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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
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Common sense is the enemy of Romance.
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I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.
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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
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Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
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Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.
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Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither.
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What a silly thing love is! It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything and it is always telling one things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true.
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I beg your pardon I didn't recognise you - I've changed a lot.
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Alas, I am dying beyond my means.
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Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses - once.