Oscar Wilde Quotes

Chrysanthemums from gilded argosy Unload their gaudy senseless merchandise.

Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.

I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception.

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.

You are Beautiful when you are happy

Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.

She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

God grant me the serenity to accept that people are ignorant, the courage to uphold the law when I'm hostile, & the wisdom to realize that murder is illegal.

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Talent borrows, genius steals!

Love is like a war; easy to start but hard to end and you never know where it might take you.

I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out.

Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.

The heart was made to be broken.

The best revenge is to live well.

Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.

In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.

A flower blossoms for its own joy.

Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.

It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.

I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.

Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Some things are too important to be taken seriously.

Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

For one moment our lives met, our souls touched.

No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

We Irish will never achieve anything; but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks

Nature: a place where birds fly around uncooked

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

Tread Lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow.

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.

Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.

The well bred contradict other people. the wise contradict themselves.

Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.

Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.... The Japanese people are ... simply a mode of style, an exquisite fancy of art.

Circumstances should never alter principles!

Everything in moderation, including moderation.

Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress, and variety and change.

Outcasts always mourn.