Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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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I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.
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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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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.
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I beg your pardon I didn't recognise you - I've changed a lot.
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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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A grapefruit is just a lemon that saw an opportunity and took advantage of it.
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A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
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Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
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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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One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
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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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Art never expresses anything but itself.
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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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It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.
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A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
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Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
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Common sense is the enemy of Romance.
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Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing.
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Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.