Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance.
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I beg your pardon I didn't recognise you - I've changed a lot.
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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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There is no sin except stupidity.
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A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
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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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Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.
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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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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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Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!
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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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If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them.
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Women treat us men like humanity treats gods – they worship us and keep bothering us to do something.
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Even the disciple has his uses. He stands behind one's throne, and at the moment of one's triumph whispers in one's ear that, after all, one is immortal.
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If we're always guided by other people's thoughts, what's the point in having our own?
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In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.
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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
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Irony is wasted on the stupid.
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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
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Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.
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Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination.
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Women are made to be loved, not understood.