Oscar Wilde Quotes

The people who have adored me-- there have not been very many, but there have been some-- have always insisted on living on, long after I had ceased to care for them, or they to care for me.

MRS ALLONBY Is she such a mystery? LORD ILLINGWORTH She is more than a mystery - she is a mood. MRS ALLONBY Moods don't last. LORD ILLINGWORTH It is their chief charm.

Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that.

JACK Your duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNON My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.

Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay.

Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.

The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.

Divorces are made in heaven.

He hasn't an enemy in the world, and none of his friend like him.

The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.

The only link between Literature and the Drama left to us in England at the present moment is the bill of the play.

We are specially designed to appeal to the sense of humour.

Be yourself, because others are already taken.

I find that forgiving one's enemies is a most curious morbid pleasure; perhaps I should check it.

She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses but in all my garden there is no red rose.

There is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty.

And when wind and winter hardenAll the loveless land, It will whisper of the garden, You will understand.

Yet ruled he not long, so great had been his suffering, and so bitter the fire of his testing, for after the space of three years he died. And he who came after him ruled evilly.

Deliver me from my disciples!

One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry.

A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.

It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love

Imagination is a quality that was given to man compensate him from whats not. The sense of humor was given to console him from what is.

I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

I have nothing to declare except my genius.

No good deed goes unpunished.

The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

It is perfectly monstrous, ' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.

You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

Women have no appreciation of good looks-at least, good women have not.

Nichts Interessantes ist jemals richtig.

Well, the way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test reality we must see it on the tight rope. When the verities become acrobats, we can judge them.

Every single human being should be the fulfilment of a prophecy: for every human being should be the realisation of some ideal, either in the mind of God or in the mind of man.

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

Die Welt ist von Narren geschaffen, damit Weise in ihr Leben.

something was dead in each of us, and what was dead was hope.

Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.

My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.

It would kill the past, and when that was dead, he would be free.

The mimicry of passion is the most intolerable of all poses.

With slouch and swing around the ringWe trod the Fools’ Parade!We did not care: we knew we wereThe Devils’ Own Brigade:And shaven head and feet of leadMake a merry masquerade.

For what is truth? In matters of relogion, it is simply the opinion that has survived. In matters of science, it is the ultimate sensation. In matters of art, it is one's last mood.

For what is truth? In matters of religion, it is simply the opinion that has survived. In matters of science, it is the ultimate sensation. In matters of art, it is one's last mood.

nothing that is worth knowing can be taught

The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.

The English novels are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed. But one should not be too severe on them. They show a want of knowledge that must be the result of years of study.