Oscar Wilde Quotes
Art is the most intense form of individualism that the world has known.Oscar Wilde
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.Oscar Wilde
Action: the last resource of those who know not how to dream.Oscar Wilde
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.Oscar Wilde
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.Oscar Wilde
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship; and it is by far the best ending for one.Oscar Wilde
Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.Oscar Wilde
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.Oscar Wilde
Chastity is the greatest form of perversion.Oscar Wilde
There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.Oscar Wilde
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - - The unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.Oscar Wilde
All that I desire to point out is the general principle that Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.Oscar Wilde
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.Oscar Wilde
Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not.Oscar Wilde
I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.Oscar Wilde
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.Oscar Wilde
I am not young enough to know everything.Oscar Wilde
It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.Oscar Wilde
Morality, like art, means a drawing a line someplace.Oscar Wilde
Democracy is the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people.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
The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.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
Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.Oscar Wilde
Always forgive your enemies - Nothing annoys them so much.Oscar Wilde
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.Oscar Wilde
Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative.Oscar Wilde
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.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
Life imitates art more than art imitates life.Oscar Wilde
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.Oscar Wilde
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.Oscar Wilde
One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.Oscar Wilde
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.Oscar Wilde
We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.Oscar Wilde
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.Oscar Wilde
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.Oscar Wilde
