Oscar Wilde Quotes

Oscar Wilde Quote of the day

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

Hearts Live By Being Wounded

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.

I drink to separate my body from my soul.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new.

She lives the poetry she cannot write.

I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.

Praise makes me humble, but when I am abused, I know that I have touched the stars.

My Salome is a mystic the sister of Salammbô a Saint Thérèse who worships the moon.

It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world

this woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night

One can forgive Shakespeare anything, except one's own bad lines.

I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.

America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself.

I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.

She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.

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.

The pure and simple truth is, the truth is never pure and simple.

Yet the roses are not less lovely for all that

For his mourners will be outcast menAnd outcasts always mourn...

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast

Lady Bracknell, I hate to seem inquisitive, but would you kindly inform me who I am?

The drawback of stealing a thing, is that one never knows how wonderful the thing that one steals is.

So with curious eyes and sick surmiseWe watched him day by day, And wondered if each one of usWould end the self-same way, For none can tell to what red HellHis sightless soul may stray.

I'm a man of simple tastes. I'm always satisfied with the best.

Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one’s prejudices.

I am the prince of procrastination. It is my besetting sin. I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do - the day after

Those who pay their bills on time are soon forgotten. It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

As for believing things, I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.

A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent

JACKYou're quite perfect, Miss Fairfax.GWENDOLENOh! I hope I am not that. It would leave no room for developments, and I intend to develop in many directions.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live.

What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.

I will love you always, because you will always be worthy of love.

My doctor says I must not have any serious conversation after seven [o'clock]. It makes me talk in my sleep.

Never mind what I say. I am always saying what I shouldn't say. In fact, I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast,

There was something tragic in a friendship so colored by romance.

There were poisons so subtle that to know their properties one had to sicken of them. There were maladies so strange that one had to pass through them if one sought to understand their nature.

I have forgotten all about my school days. I have a vague impression that they were detestable.

I don't want to earn a living, I want to live.

Ah! that is the great thing in life, to live the truth.

Indeed, as a rule, everybody turns out to be somebody else.

I love talking about nothing, father. It is the only thing I know anything about.

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.