Oscar Wilde Quotes

But she is happiest alone. She is happiest alone.

Love is easily killed.

A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating.

Ah! somehow life is bigger after all Than any painted angel could we see The God that is within us!

Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.

They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance

It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.

For, try as we may, we cannot get behind the appearence of things to reality. And the terrible reason may be that there is no reality in the things apart from their appearences.

It is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologize to one in private for what they have written against one in public.

A woman's life revolves in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses.

Schopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterize modern thought, but Hamlet invented it

The world is made by the singer for the dreamer.

Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.

Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach thy hand, For I am drowning in a stormier sea Than Simon on thy lake of Galilee

Alas! it is a fearful thing To feel another's guilt!

Don't tell me that you have exhausted Life. When a man says that, one knows that life has exhausted him.

You can fake intelligence, but you can't fake wit.

When I ask for a water cress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.

The worst thing to do with success, is to boast about it.

Nothing worth learning can ever be taught

I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood.

Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it.

I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.

Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.

Just because a man has died for it, does not make it true.

He hadn’t a single redeeming vice.

The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.

Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.

If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern)

I'm not nearly young enough to know everything

...The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison.

I live constantly in the fear of not being misunderstood.

It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected.

And, by the way, one of the most delightful things I find in America is meeting a people without prejudice -- everywhere open to the truth.

The gods bestowed on Max [Beerbohm] the gift of perpetual old age.

I love scrapes. They are the only things that are never serious." "Oh, that's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense." "Nobody ever does.

I was wrong. God's law is only Love.

Nobody ever commits a crime without doing something stupid.

In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.

I never saw so many well-dressed, well-fed, business-looking Bohemians in my life.

I am thoroughly sick of pearls. They make one look so plain, so good and so intellectual.

The last person who ever crossed me is dead under my bed!!!

No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.

The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers. The trouble with men is, that they don't.

St. Paul's Loomed like a bubble o'er the town.

The Americans are identical to the British in all respects except, of course, language.

Oh, how I vainly wished to the bearded man in the sky that I was Neapolitan. Why? So I could bring in a fine Neapolitan pest control to help with Queensberry's problem before it gets out of hand.

You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.

No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself

It's either the wallpaper or me. One of us has to go. [These were his dying words.]