Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither.
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I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
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Nature is always behind the age.
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The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.
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To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance.
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Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses - once.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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I can't stand people that do not take food seriously.
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There is no sin except stupidity.
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The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.
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The fact is, that civilisation requires slaves. The Greeks were quite right there. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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Women are made to be loved, not understood.
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Men as a rule love with their eyes, woman with their ears.
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The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women merely adored.
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Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations.
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Alas, I am dying beyond my means.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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The fact is, that the public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesmanlike habits, supplies their demands.
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Irony is wasted on the stupid.
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It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.