Oscar Wilde Quotes
When I was young I thought money was the most important thing in life. Now that I'm old - I know it is.
It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible not the invisible.
I know not whether laws be right Or whether laws be wrong All that we know who lie in gaol Is that the wall is strong And that each day is like a year A year whose days are long.
Relations are simply a tedious pack of people who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
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.
Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple and the simple thing is the right thing.
Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern one is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly.
To get into the best society nowadays one has either to feed people amuse people or shock people.
To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact talk to every woman as if you loved her and to every man as if he bored you.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.
A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can you want?
As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar it will cease to be popular.
Ordinary riches can be stolen real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
There is no such thing as romance in our day women have become too brilliant nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.
Most people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour.
Perhaps one never seems so much at one's ease as when one has to play a part.
Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life now that I am old I know that it is.
Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.
