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The Americans are identical to the British in all respects except, of course, language.
— Oscar Wilde
All bad art is the result of good intentions.
— Oscar Wilde
The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.
— Oscar Wilde
I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.
— Oscar Wilde
The Chinese general Sun Tzu said that all war was based on deception. Oscar Wilde said the same thing of romance.
— Marco Tempest
There is no such thing as good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral- immoral from a scientific point of view.
— Oscar Wilde
Of course I need not remind you how fluid a thing thought is with me
with us all
and of what an evanescent substance are our emotions made. — Oscar Wilde
with us all
and of what an evanescent substance are our emotions made. — Oscar Wilde
as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. The nineteenth century
— Oscar Wilde
The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.
— Oscar Wilde
I am all expectation.
— Oscar Wilde
He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
— Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde said that "All crime is vulgar, just as all vulgarity is crime," and then got sent off to Reading Gaol to reconsider and write ballads.
— Mark Forsyth
The more you appreciate the things of beauty all around you, the more beautiful things will fill your life.
— Debasish Mridha
I keep a diary in order to enter the wonderful secrets of my life. If I didn't write them down, I should not probably forget all about them.
— Oscar Wilde
I dare say that if I knew him I should not be his friend at all. It is a very dangerous thing to know one's friends.
— Oscar Wilde
All crime is vulgar, just as all vulgarity is a crime
— Oscar Wilde
Good intentions have been the ruin of the world. The only people who have achieved anything have been those who have had no intentions at all.
— Oscar Wilde
Yet the roses are not less lovely for all that
— Oscar Wilde
The visible aspect of modern life disturbs him not; rather is it for him to render eternal all that is beautiful in Greek, Italian, and Celtic legend.
— Oscar Wilde
All the quips in the world couldn't prevent Oscar Wilde from becoming a lovesick fool.
— David Levithan
The greatest of all sins is stupidity.
— Oscar Wilde
You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.
— Oscar Wilde
In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen.
— Oscar Wilde
When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.
— Oscar Wilde
Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight For the greatest tragedy of them all Is never to feel the burning light.
— Oscar Wilde
In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential.
— Oscar Wilde
If you want to be witty, say what you think at all times
— Oscar Wilde
The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts.
— Oscar Wilde
One pale woman all alone,
The daylight kissing her wan hair,
Loitered beneath the gas lamps' flare,
With lips of flame and heart of stone. — Oscar Wilde
The daylight kissing her wan hair,
Loitered beneath the gas lamps' flare,
With lips of flame and heart of stone. — Oscar Wilde
It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love
— Oscar Wilde
To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
— Oscar Wilde
All criticism is a form of autobiography
— Oscar Wilde
It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.
— Oscar Wilde
All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life.
— Oscar Wilde
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.
— Oscar Wilde
We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.
— Oscar Wilde
The public is largely influenced by the look of a book. So are we all. It is the only artistic thing about the public.
— Oscar Wilde
I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself,
— Oscar Wilde
Conscience makes egotists of us all.
— Oscar Wilde
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.
— Oscar Wilde
All art is quite useless. OSCAR WILDE
— Oscar Wilde
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
— Oscar Wilde
How ugly it all was! And how horribly real ugliness made things! He felt a little annoyed with Lord Henry for having
— Oscar Wilde
Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.
— Oscar Wilde
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.
— Oscar Wilde
Lord AUGUSTUS:(looking around) Time to educate yourself, I suppose.
DUMBY: No, time to forget all I have learned. That is much more important. — Oscar Wilde
DUMBY: No, time to forget all I have learned. That is much more important. — Oscar Wilde
All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of.
— Oscar Wilde
All art is quite useless.
— Oscar Wilde
Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.
— Oscar Wilde
How long could you love a woman who didn't love you, Cecil?
A woman who didn't love me? Oh, all my life! — Oscar Wilde
A woman who didn't love me? Oh, all my life! — Oscar Wilde
If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.
— Oscar Wilde
All influence is immoral
— Oscar Wilde
Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?
— Oscar Wilde
She was usually in love with somebody, and, as her passion was never returned, she had kept all her illusions.
— Oscar Wilde
Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.
— Oscar Wilde
All good looks are a snare. They are a snare that every sensible man would like to be caught in.
— Oscar Wilde
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
— Oscar Wilde
Memory ... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
— Oscar Wilde
When I started to focus on all the beauty all around me, my whole world became amazingly beautiful.
— Debasish Mridha
I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.
— Oscar Wilde
Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They're the only things we can pay.
— Oscar Wilde
To achieve all of your goals, focus on one goal at a time.
— Debasish Mridha
Have I not indeed been living in a dream? And am I not now dying a victim to the horror and the mystery of the wildest of all sublunary visions?
— Oscar Wilde
We women love with our ears just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all.
— Oscar Wilde
Of all people in the world the English have the least sense of the beauty of literature.
— Oscar Wilde
All I want now is to look at life.
— Oscar Wilde
And when wind and winter harden
All the loveless land,
It will whisper of the garden,
You will understand. — Oscar Wilde
All the loveless land,
It will whisper of the garden,
You will understand. — Oscar Wilde
Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing
characteristic. — Oscar Wilde
characteristic. — Oscar Wilde
My dear boy, I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all.
— Oscar Wilde
I have forgotten all about my school days. I have a vague impression that they were detestable.
— Oscar Wilde
Sooner or later we have all to pay for what we do.
— Oscar Wilde
And, certainly to him Life itself was the first, the greatest, of the arts, and for it all the other arts seemed to be but a preparation.
— Oscar Wilde
Damn it all, MacMurrough, are you telling me you are an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort?'
'If you mean am I Irish, the answer is yes. — Jamie O'Neill
'If you mean am I Irish, the answer is yes. — Jamie O'Neill
All trials are trials for one's life.
— Oscar Wilde
My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.
— Oscar Wilde
It is very difficult sometimes to keep awake, especially at church, but there is no difficulty at all about sleeping.
— Oscar Wilde
You miss all the possibilities of winning if you don't participate
— Debasish Mridha