Oscar Wilde Quotes

I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.

My dear Algy, you talk exactly as if you were a dentist. It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces false impression

It is very vulgar to talk about one's own business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then only at dinner parties.

Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber

Personally, I have a great admiration for stupidity.

Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.

He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.

I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.

The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.

Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.

In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

In married life three is company and two none.

A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.

Always! That is the dreadful word ... it is a meaningless word, too.

Behind Joy and Laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind Sorrow there is always Sorrow. Pain, unlike Pleasure, wears no mask.

Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.

LADY BRACKNELL Algernon is an extremely, I may almost say an ostentatiously, eligible young man. He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more can one desire?

Praise makes me humble, but when I am abused, I know that I have touched the stars.

Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.

It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world

My Salome is a mystic the sister of Salammbô a Saint Thérèse who worships the moon.

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.

Do not forget that small daily actions do or undo character.

It is only very ugly or very beautiful women who ever hide their faces .

A woman who cannot make her mistakes charming, is only a female.

What is said of man is nothing; the point is, who says it.

Each of us has heaven and hell in him.

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If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. But if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly.

The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.

Friendship never forgets. That is the wonderful thing about it.

I am afraid he has one of those terribly weak natures that are susceptible to influence.

Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image.

The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common!

It is only the sacred things that are worth touching

The only thing I can't resist is temptation.

Life is a nightmare that prevents one from sleeping.

Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.

When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable.

It is always the unreadable that occurs.

Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.

I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so.

Before Turner there was no fog in London.

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

It is personalities not principles that move the age.

Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.