More Oscar Wilde Quotes

1. ... Nature, whose sweet rains fall of just and unj ...
   
2. ...my dear boy, no woman is a genius. They are a d ...
   
3. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleas ...
   
4. A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything ...
   
5. A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moon ...
   
6. A grand passion is the privelege of people who hav ...
   
7. A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a gre ...
   
8. A man can be happy with any woman as long as he do ...
   
9. A man can't be too careful in the choice of his en ...
   
10. A pessimist is one who, when he has a choice of tw ...
    
11. A poet can survive everything but a misprint. ...
    
12. A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies ...
    
13. A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life. ...
    
14. A work of art is the unique result of a unique tem ...
    
15. About foxhunting: The unspeakable chasing the unea ...
    
16. Action is the last refuge of those who cannot drea ...
    
17. Alas, I am dying beyond my means. (As he sipped ch ...
    
18. All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who g ...
    
19. All art is quite useless. ...
    
20. All authority is quite degrading. ...
    
21. All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. ...
    
22. All that I desire to point out is the general prin ...
    
23. Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them ...
    
24. America had often been discovered before Columbus, ...
    
25. America is the only country that went from barbari ...
    
26. And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats,
    N ...
    
27. Anybody can be good in the country. There are no t ...
    
28. Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a fr ...
    
29. Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a ...
    
30. Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulga ...
    
31. Art is the most intense mode of individualism that ...
    
32. As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will alwa ...
    
33. At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, tho ...
    
34. Bad artists always admire each other's work. ...
    
35. Beauty is a form of genius--is higher, indeed, tha ...
    
36. Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only the sh ...
    
37. Being natural is simply a pose. ...
    
38. Between men and women there is no friendship possi ...
    
39. Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is th ...
    
40. Biography lends to death a new terror. ...
    
41. Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude. ...
    
42. But what is the difference between literature and ...
    
43. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journ ...
    
44. By persistently remaining single a man converts hi ...
    
45. Chastity is the greatest form of perversion. ...
    
46. Children begin by loving their parents; as they gr ...
    
47. Conscience and cowardice are really the same thing ...
    
48. Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginativ ...
    
49. Democracy is the bludgeoning of the people, by the ...
    
50. Divorces are made in heaven. ...
    
51. Don't give a woman advice; one should never give a ...
    
52. Dreamers can find their way by moonlight and their ...
    
53. Eduaction is an admirable thing, but it is well to ...
    
54. Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a p ...
    
55. Everyone who is incapable of learning has taken to ...
    
56. Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. ...
    
57. Experience is the name everyone gives to their mis ...
    
58. Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that ...
    
59. Genius is born--not paid. ...
    
60. Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw o ...
    
61. He has never written a single book, so you can ima ...
    
62. He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The othe ...
    
63. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful ...
    
64. How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man ...
    
65. I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge ...
    
66. I always like to know everything about my new frie ...
    
67. I am not young enough to know everything. ...
    
68. I am the only person in the world I should like to ...
    
69. I can believe anything, provided that it is quite ...
    
70. I can resist anything but temptation. ...
    
71. I choose my friends for their good looks, my acqua ...
    
72. I couldn't help it. I can resist everything except ...
    
73. I have nothing to declare but my genius. (As he pa ...
    
74. I have the simplest of tastes. I am always satisfi ...
    
75. I like persons better than principles, and I like ...
    
76. I like talking to a brick wall, it's the only thin ...
    
77. I love acting. It is so much more real than life. ...
    
78. I must decline your invitation owing to a subseque ...
    
79. I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means ...
    
80. I think that God in creating Man somewhat overesti ...
    
81. I was working on the proof of one of my poems all ...
    
82. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch i ...
    
83. Illusion is the first of all pleasures. ...
    
84. Imagination is a quality given to man to compensat ...
    
85. It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so l ...
    
86. It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. P ...
    
87. It is an odd thing, but everyone who disappears is ...
    
88. It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but ...
    
89. It is better to have a permanent income than to be ...
    
90. It is only about things that do not interest one t ...
    
91. It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impar ...
    
92. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appe ...
    
93. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue. ...
    
94. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives u ...
    
95. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really ...
    
96. It often happens that the real tragedies in life o ...
    
97. Journalism justifies its own existence by the grea ...
    
98. Knowledge would be fatal, it is the uncertainty th ...
    
99. Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a frien ...
    
100. Life imitates art more than art imitates life. ...
     
101. Life is far too important a thing ever to talk ser ...
     
102. Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Pov ...
     
103. Live the wonderful life that is in you. ...
     
104. Man can believe the impossible, but can never beli ...
     
105. Man is a rational animal who always loses his temp ...
     
106. Man is least himself when he talks in his own pers ...
     
107. Men always want to be a woman's first love - women ...
     
108. Missionaries are going to reform the world whether ...
     
109. Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like ...
     
110. Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward pe ...
     
111. Morality, like art, means a drawing a line somepla ...
     
112. Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of ...
     
113. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are s ...
     
114. Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and m ...
     
115. Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it alw ...
     
116. My wallpaper and i are fighting a duel to death. O ...
     
117. No great artist ever sees things as they really ar ...
     
118. No woman should ever be quite accurate about her a ...
     
119. Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as ...
     
120. Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. ...
     
121. Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping com ...
     
122. One can always be kind to people about whom one ca ...
     
123. One can survive everything, nowadays, except death ...
     
124. One is tempted to define man as a rational animal ...
     
125. One must have a heart of stone to read the death o ...
     
126. One of the many lessons that one learns in prison ...
     
127. One should absorb the colour of life, but one shou ...
     
128. One should always be in love. That is the reason o ...
     
129. One should always play fairly when one has the win ...
     
130. One should either be a work of art, or wear a work ...
     
131. One should never trust a woman who tells her real ...
     
132. One's real life is often the life that one does no ...
     
133. Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast. ...
     
134. Only the shallow know themselves. ...
     
135. Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. ...
     
136. Oscar Wilde: "I wish I had said that." Whistler: " ...
     
137. Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the l ...
     
138. Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. ...
     
139. People are very fond of giving away what they need ...
     
140. People who count their chickens before they are ha ...
     
141. Perhaps, after all, America never has been discove ...
     
142. Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two ...
     
143. Philanthropic people lose all sense of Humanity, i ...
     
144. Philanthropy is the refuge of rich people who wish ...
     
145. Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the ...
     
146. Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered ...
     
147. Punctuality is the thief of time. ...
     
148. Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief. ...
     
149. Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not ...
     
150. Romance should never begin with sentiment. It shou ...
     
151. Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. ...
     
152. Science is the record of dead religions. ...
     
153. Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, i ...
     
154. Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow. ...
     
155. She is a peacock in everything but beauty. ...
     
156. Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the comple ...
     
157. Sin is the only real colour element left in modern ...
     
158. Society produces rogues, and education makes one r ...
     
159. Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whe ...
     
160. Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation ...
     
161. Success is a science; if you have the conditions, ...
     
162. The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us ...
     
163. The aim of life is self-development. To realize on ...
     
164. The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is ...
     
165. The basis of optimism is sheer terror. ...
     
166. The cynic knows the price of everything and the va ...
     
167. The English country gentleman galloping after a fo ...
     
168. The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Th ...
     
169. The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of ...
     
170. The only charm of marriage is that it makes a life ...
     
171. The only excuse for creating something useless is ...
     
172. The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not ...
     
173. The only thing that sustains one through life is t ...
     
174. The only thing to do with good advice is to pass i ...
     
175. The only thing worse than being talked about is no ...
     
176. The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yiel ...
     
177. The problem with the common person is that he is s ...
     
178. The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunder ...
     
179. The public have an insatiable curiosity to know ev ...
     
180. The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives ev ...
     
181. The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never ...
     
182. The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure o ...
     
183. The stage is not merely the meeting place of all t ...
     
184. The strength of women comes from the fact that psy ...
     
185. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not ...
     
186. The truth is rarely pure and never simple. ...
     
187. The typewriting machine, when played with expressi ...
     
188. The very essence of love is uncertainty. ...
     
189. There are many things that we would throw away if ...
     
190. There are only two kinds of people who are really ...
     
191. There are only two tragedies in life: one is not g ...
     
192. There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is ...
     
193. There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ...
     
194. There is always something ridiculous about the emo ...
     
195. There is no sin except stupidity. ...
     
196. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral bo ...
     
197. There is only one thing in the world worse than be ...
     
198. Thirty five is a very attractive age; London soci ...
     
199. To be good, according to the vulgar standard of go ...
     
200. To be natural is such a very difficult pose to kee ...
     
201. To disagree with three-fourths of the British publ ...
     
202. To get back my youth I would do anything in the wo ...
     
203. To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune ...
     
204. To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong rom ...
     
205. True friends stab you in the front. ...
     
206. Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opini ...
     
207. Vile deeds like poison weeds bloom well in prison ...
     
208. We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looki ...
     
209. We are not sent into the world to air our moral pr ...
     
210. We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as ...
     
211. We have really everything in common with America n ...
     
212. We teach people how to remember, we never teach th ...
     
213. What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of ever ...
     
214. What people call insincerity is simply a method by ...
     
215. When a woman marries again, it is because she dete ...
     
216. When critics disagree the artist is in accord with ...
     
217. When good Americans die they go to Paris. When bad ...
     
218. When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one i ...
     
219. When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our p ...
     
220. When we are happy we are always good, but when we ...
     
221. Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it ...
     
222. Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must ...
     
223. While one should always study the method of a grea ...
     
224. Who, being loved, is poor? ...
     
225. Why was I born with such contemporaries ...
     
226. Wisdom comes with winters. ...
     
227. Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and end ...
     
228. Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men alway ...
     
229. Women love us for our defects. If we have enough o ...
     
230. Work is the curse of the drinking classes. ...
     
231. Yet each man kills the thing he loves,By each let ...