Oscar Wilde Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers. The trouble with men is, that they don't.
When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.
If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it.
Oh, I love London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be.
As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.
When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable.
I should fancy that crime was to them what art is to us, simply a method of procuring extraordinary sensations.
There being some of them who had still quite natural manners, which in a courtier is, I need hardly say, a very grave offence.
And alien tears will fill for him pity's long broken urn. For his mourners will all be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.
I remember your saying once that there is a fatality about good resolutions - that they are always made too late. Mine certainly were.
Love - well, not love at first sight, but love at the end of the season, which is so much more satisfactory.
We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence it.
O wandering graves! O restless sleep!
O silence of the sunless day!
O still ravine! O stormy deep!
Give up your prey! Give up your prey!
O silence of the sunless day!
O still ravine! O stormy deep!
Give up your prey! Give up your prey!
While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all.
Making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.
I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself,
Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.
Colonel. Can she read and write? Peter. Ay, that she can, sir. Colonel. Then she is a dangerous woman.
Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.
The moral life of man forms part of the subject matter of the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.
The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.
The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.
My dear fellow, the way you flirt with Gwendolen is perfectly disgraceful. It is almost as disgraceful as the way Gwendolen flirts with you.
Life makes us pay too high a price for its wares, and we purchase the meanest of its secrets at a cost that is monstrous and infinite.
Strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analysed, women ... merely adored.
When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.
I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
Tell me, when you are alone with him [ Max Beerbohm ] Sphinx, does he take off his face and reveal his mask?
The ability of the theist to misunderstand a thing is directly proportional to the obviousness of the thing.
London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.
LORD ILLINGWORTH. As George Harford I had everything I wanted. Now I have merely everything that other people want, which isn't nearly so pleasant.