Oscar Wilde Quotes
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.Oscar Wilde
True friends stab you in the front.Oscar Wilde
It is an odd thing, but everyone who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and possess all the attractions of the next world.Oscar Wilde
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.Oscar Wilde
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.Oscar Wilde
Chastity is the greatest form of perversion.Oscar Wilde
The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.Oscar Wilde
Genius is born - - Not paid.Oscar Wilde
Democracy is the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people.Oscar Wilde
While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy; the second is perfection, which all should aim at.Oscar Wilde
The only charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception necessary for both parties.Oscar Wilde
Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.Oscar Wilde
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.Oscar Wilde
Imagination is a quality given to man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humaor is provided to console him from what he is.Oscar Wilde
I can resist anything but temptation.Oscar Wilde
To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune to lose both looks like carelessness.Oscar Wilde
We can forgive a man for 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. All art is quite useless.Oscar Wilde
Action: the last resource of those who know not how to dream.Oscar Wilde
To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle - Class respectability.Oscar Wilde
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.Oscar Wilde
At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.Oscar Wilde
Nothing is so aggravating as calmness.Oscar Wilde
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.Oscar Wilde
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.Oscar Wilde
Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another.Oscar Wilde
I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.Oscar Wilde
The fact is, that civilization 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.Oscar Wilde
Beauty is a form of genius - - Is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde: I wish I had said that. Whistler: You will, Oscar; you will.Oscar Wilde
Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.Oscar Wilde
Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.Oscar Wilde
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.Oscar Wilde
Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.Oscar Wilde
Life is too important to be taken seriously.Oscar Wilde
Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not.Oscar Wilde
Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.Oscar Wilde
I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.Oscar Wilde
