Oscar Wilde Quotes
Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.Oscar Wilde
Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.Oscar Wilde
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.Oscar Wilde
True friends stab you in the front.Oscar Wilde
Genius is born - - Not paid.Oscar Wilde
One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell without laughing.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
Why was I born with such contemporaries?Oscar Wilde
One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.Oscar Wilde
Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.Oscar Wilde
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.Oscar Wilde
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.Oscar Wilde
At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.Oscar Wilde
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.Oscar Wilde
Art is the most intense form of individualism that the world has known.Oscar Wilde
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.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
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
About foxhunting: The unspeakable chasing the uneatable.Oscar Wilde
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.Oscar Wilde
Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.Oscar Wilde
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.Oscar Wilde
When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck men risk theirs.Oscar Wilde
Life imitates art more than art imitates life.Oscar Wilde
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live.Oscar Wilde
I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.Oscar Wilde
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.Oscar Wilde
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.Oscar Wilde
Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.Oscar Wilde
It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.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
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
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.Oscar Wilde
The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.Oscar Wilde
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.Oscar Wilde
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.Oscar Wilde
