Oscar Wilde Quotes
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A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
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To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance.
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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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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations.
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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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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 strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women merely adored.
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Alas, I am dying beyond my means.
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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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If we're always guided by other people's thoughts, what's the point in having our own?
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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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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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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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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
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I can't stand people that do not take food seriously.
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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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The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
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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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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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Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!