Oscar Wilde Quotes
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women...merely adored.
Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.
A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.
An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
Nowadays, saying what you really think can be a serious error since one risks being misunderstood.
Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.
Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!
Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.
My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.
Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.
The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great.
Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.
Too much work, and no vacation, Deserves at least a small libation. So hail! my friends, and raise your glasses, Work's the curse of the drinking classes.
An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.
From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.
The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.
You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter - a girl brought up with the utmost care - to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel?
Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.
As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to his own superiority as a painter over painters greater than himself.