Oscar Wilde Quotes
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
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.Oscar Wilde
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.Oscar Wilde
It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.Oscar Wilde
I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.Oscar Wilde
Some cause happiness wherever they go others whenever they go.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
The only charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception necessary for both parties.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
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
One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.Oscar Wilde
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.Oscar Wilde
Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.Oscar Wilde
Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.Oscar Wilde
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.Oscar Wilde
Action: the last resource of those who know not how to dream.Oscar Wilde
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.Oscar Wilde
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.Oscar Wilde
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.Oscar Wilde
The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common!Oscar Wilde
The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.Oscar Wilde
Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another.Oscar Wilde
Action is the last refuge of those who cannot dream.Oscar Wilde
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.Oscar Wilde
The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling I have always cultivated.Oscar Wilde
I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.Oscar Wilde
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.Oscar Wilde
Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.Oscar Wilde
Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The koward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword.Oscar Wilde
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.Oscar Wilde
I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.Oscar Wilde
Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.Oscar Wilde
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.Oscar Wilde
Life is too important to be taken seriously.Oscar Wilde
It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.Oscar Wilde
What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.Oscar Wilde
Eduaction is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.Oscar Wilde
