Oscar Wilde Quotes

Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

When good Americans die, they go to Paris.

Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely if ever do they forgi...

Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.

Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about and that is not being talked abo...

When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

Every great man nowadays has his disciples and it is always Judas who writes the biography.

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope ove...

Journalism is unreadable, and literature is unread.

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the ...

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself.She is not to be judged by any exte...

One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry.

nothing that is worth knowing can be taught

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Ordinary riches can be stolen real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that ...

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible tem...

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it i...

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the trut...

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the...

America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than ...

A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly h...

I drink to separate my body from my soul.

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played...

He hasn't an enemy in the world and none of his friends like him.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

All I want to do now is look at life. You may come and look at it with me, if you care to.

Men always want to be a woman's first love, -women want to be a man's last romance.

Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.

The curves of your lips rewrite history.

What a silly thing love is!' said the student as he walked away. 'It is not half as useful as logic,...

Pessimist - one who when he has the choice of two evils chooses both.

Yet the roses are not less lovely for all that

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occu...

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

She is a peacock in everything but beauty.

Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

She lives the poetry she cannot write.

Ah! Happy they whose hearts can breakAnd peace of pardon win!How else may man make straight his path...

Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulga...

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

Men always want to be a woman`s first love - women like to be a man`s last romance.

So with curious eyes and sick surmiseWe watched him day by day,And wondered if each one of usWould e...

The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability.

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

A lily-girl, not made for this world’s pain.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

It would be unfair to expect other people to be as brilliant as oneself.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The c...

Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

True friends stab you in the front.

A flower blossoms for its own joy.

Why had it been left for a stranger to reveal him to himself?

Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is according to the mode in which ...

For he who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die.

A kiss may ruin a human life

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is...

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing...

I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as the...

We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.

I'm a man of simple tastes. I'm always satisfied with the best.

The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputatio...

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

it is a marvel that those red-roseleaf lips of yours should be made no less for the madness of music...

For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.

No: a poor man who is ungrateful, unthrifty, discontented and rebellious, is probably a real persona...

Relations are simply a tedious pack of people who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live ...

Oh, I can't explain. When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like sur...

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be ...

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinne...

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything...

I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five

The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings...

After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mour...

With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.

With slouch and swing around the ringWe trod the Fools’ Parade!We did not care: we knew we wereThe D...

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he'll tell you the truth

Biography lends to death a new terror.

Bad artists always admire each others work.

When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything el...

Men always want to be a woman’s first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle...

Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.