Oscar Wilde Quotes
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A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
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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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I can't stand people that do not take food seriously.
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance.
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One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
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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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Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
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There is no sin except stupidity.
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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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Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations.
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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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The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
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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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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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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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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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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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It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.
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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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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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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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Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London.