Oscar Wilde Quotes

I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.

I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.

Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses.

You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that.

The best people to work for are me, myself and I.

It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.

Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.

Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.

Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.

Everything that is popular is wrong.

We live, I regret to say, in an age of Big Data hype.

Philanthropy [has become] simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.

If I hadn't believed it, then I wouldn't have seen it

We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.

To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.

He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.

I don't play accurately--any one can play accurately--but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

There can be nothing more frequent than an occasional drink.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

There are only two kinds of women, the plain and the coloured.

One should always be a little improbable.

Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.

I made your sorrow mine also, that you might have help in bearing it.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happy married life.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

Men as a rule love with their eyes, woman with their ears.

Sphinxes without secrets.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

Men become old, but they never become good.

To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.