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Oscar Wilde

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G.K. CHESTERTON What of Art?
-It is a malady.
--Love?
-An Illusion.
--Religion?
-The fashio...
OSCAR WILDE I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort.
E.M. FORSTER Oscar Wilde: "I wish I had said that." Whistler: "You will, Oscar; you will.
JAMES MCNEILL WHISTLER The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. -Oscar Wilde.
OSCAR WILDE For some peculiar reason, two films about Oscar Wilde were started at the same time, back in 1959 or...
PETER FINCH Life is far too important a thing ever to talk about. -Oscar Wilde.
OSCAR WILDE Any fool can make history, but it takes a genius to write it.
OSCAR WILDE Always forgive your enemies--nothing annoys them so much. -Oscar Wilde.
OSCAR WILDE The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork - Oscar Wilde
OSCAR WILDE this woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night
OSCAR WILDE I love Oscar Wilde, still the wittiest writer of anyone, dead or living.
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY Oh bless Speranza, for giving her son such a preposterous name as Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wil...
MARY ANN SHAFFER Hablar es tener demasiada consideración por los demás. Por la boca mueren los peces y Oscar Wilde.
FERNANDO PESSOA What odd chaps you painters are! You do anything in the world to gain a reputation. As soon as you h...
OSCAR WILDE When in Reading Gaol he told me that the warders in the dock had been gentle and kind, but the visit...
CHARLES S. RICKETTS Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one’s prejudices.
OSCAR WILDE She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.
OSCAR WILDE As for believing things, I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.
OSCAR WILDE Praise makes me humble, but when I am abused, I know that I have touched the stars.
GYLES BRANDRETH Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I ...
OSCAR WILDE I am the prince of procrastination. It is my besetting sin. I never put off till tomorrow what I can...
GYLES BRANDRETH Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn'
SARAH BERNHARDT Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.
OSCAR WILDE Another word for religion is belief.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) As some people turned to religion for comfort, so, Highsmith wrote in her notebook in September 1970...
ANDREW WILSON I can now recreate life in a way that was hidden from me, before.'A dream of form in days of thought...
OSCAR WILDE I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone ...
OSCAR WILDE It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world
OSCAR WILDE Lewis Morris: "It is a conspiracy of silence against me - a conspiracy of silence! What should I d...
OSCAR WILDE Every single human being should be the fulfilment of a prophecy: for every human being should be the...
OSCAR WILDE Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are ...
J.J. MCAVOY Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn.&#...
SARAH BERNHARDT There was something tragic in a friendship so colored by romance.
OSCAR WILDE the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loy...
OSCAR WILDE I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.
OSCAR WILDE Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast
OSCAR WILDE Some believe that as an icon the image of Oscar Wilde is too old and notorious--all right, not an ic...
LARA BIYUTS My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.
OSCAR WILDE I'm a man of simple tastes. I'm always satisfied with the best.
OSCAR WILDE Nossos dias são muito curtos para que tomemos, nos próprios ombros, o peso dos erros de outrem. Ca...
OSCAR WILDE Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.
OSCAR WILDE We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and ...
T.S. ELIOT Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America an...
FREDERIC RAPHAEL Oscar Wilde always makes me smile - with respect and admiration. His short stories prove that it is ...
ORHAN PAMUK Communism introduced into the world a substitute for true religion. It is a counterfeit of the gospe...
EZRA TAFT BENSON I drink to separate my body from my soul.
OSCAR WILDE Hearts Live By Being Wounded
OSCAR WILDE It is a consolation or a misfortune that the wrong kind of people are too often correct in their pro...
ROBBIE ROSS Never mind what I say. I am always saying what I shouldn't say. In fact, I usually say what I really...
OSCAR WILDE A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. ...
OSCAR WILDE Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.
OSCAR WILDE Y la belleza es una forma de genio más elevada, en verdad, que el genio; no tiene necesidad de expl...
OSCAR WILDE people who only love once in their lives are really shallow people. What they call their loyalty, an...
OSCAR WILDE Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up...
OSCAR WILDE because to influence a person is to give one's own soul.
OSCAR WILDE [On Oscar Wilde:]

"If, with the literate, I am
Impelled to try an epigram, DOROTHY PARKER The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.
ARNOLD J. TOYNBEE A belief is an opinion, a religion is a belief, and an opinion is a right.
YAHYA MOHAMUD Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal - they can both sleep under the bridge. Right? Do t...
AL LEWIS [Referring to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde] ... Will civilization never reach humane ideals? Will...
FRANK HARRIS If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.
OSCAR WILDE So with curious eyes and sick surmise
We watched him day by day,
And wondered if each one ...
OSCAR WILDE Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.
Just as vul...
OSCAR WILDE The drawback of stealing a thing, is that one never knows how wonderful the thing that one steals is...
OSCAR WILDE Olvidar un hecho, es modificar el pasado.
OSCAR WILDE Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.
MARGUERITE BLESSINGTON Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.
COUNTESS OF (MARGUERITE GARDINER) BLESSINGTON Religion is the surrender of truth to the whimsy of belief.
RAIN BOJANGLES Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue
MOLIERE I have a bit of a love affair with fairy tales and some of the ideas of Irish mythology, like Oscar ...
HOZIER religion is a symptom of irrational belief and groundless hope
DR. GREGORY HOUSE I was raised on the brothers Grimm, but my favorite fairy tales in the world are Oscar Wilde's -...
DENIS O'HARE I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.
OSCAR WILDE So who's perfect? Washington had false teeth. Franklin was nearsighted. Mussolini had syphilis. Unpl...
JOHN O'HARA Practice is a substitute for talent; however, there is no substitute for practice.
REBEKAH CYPHERS For me, hipsterism is for one to appropriate the codes of a social class or another milieu that wasn...
XAVIER DOLAN Everyone says Oscar Wilde was a dandy, but he wasn't - he was an aesthete. He took pleasure in f...
SEBASTIAN HORSLEY Oscar Wilde turned the world upside down and was able to laugh at it, and hopefully by the time I...
JOHN LYDON Oscar Wilde once said that to live is the rarest thing in the world, because most people just exist,...
ROBYN SCHNEIDER Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin, on the 15th October, 1856, so that he is now about twenty-six years ...
WALTER HAMILTON In man's life, the absence of an essential component usually leads to the adoption of a substitute. ...
ERIC HOFFER I believe that your religion should be between you and whoever your belief is in.
ZAYN MALIK You can’t substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense o...
MITCH ALBOM I've been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools ...
JACK BOWMAN Oscar Wilde was sort of my first love as a young reader. And then I went on to love Jane Austen'...
WHIT STILLMAN Perception cheats in the name of reason and belief cheats in the name of religion. There is no escap...
THIRUMAN ARCHUNAN Wilde is the greatest force for evil that has appeared in Europe during the last 350 years.
LORD ALFRED DOUGLAS Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy.
LEONARD RAVENHILL Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakeable truth through the power of institutions a...
RICHARD DAWKINS Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions an...
RICHARD DAWKINS What people really believe doesn't feel like a BELIEF, it feels like the way the world IS.
ELIEZER YUDKOWSKY There is always the poet, the lunatic, the lover; there is always the religious man who is a queer m...
FREDERICK BUECHNER The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience, while the error o...
OSCAR WILDE The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience, while the error o...
LYMAN BRYSON Are we to deny our daughters the works of Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens, John Steinbeck or Shakespear...
DIANE DAVIES When I think of all the harm the Bible has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it
OSCAR WILDE

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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry,...
OSCAR WILDE It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
OSCAR WILDE The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
OSCAR WILDE We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
OSCAR WILDE I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
OSCAR WILDE Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
OSCAR WILDE The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
OSCAR WILDE A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
OSCAR WILDE True friends stab you in the front.
OSCAR WILDE Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
OSCAR WILDE It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
OSCAR WILDE Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
OSCAR WILDE It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
OSCAR WILDE The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
OSCAR WILDE Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
OSCAR WILDE Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
OSCAR WILDE I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give...
OSCAR WILDE In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Veneti...
OSCAR WILDE Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
OSCAR WILDE Writing bores me so.
OSCAR WILDE There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.
OSCAR WILDE Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
OSCAR WILDE Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to ...
OSCAR WILDE 'The Lady's World' should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women's...
OSCAR WILDE There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.
OSCAR WILDE In married life three is company and two none.
OSCAR WILDE I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of sim...
OSCAR WILDE Charity creates a multitude of sins.
OSCAR WILDE What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
OSCAR WILDE If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
OSCAR WILDE Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
OSCAR WILDE The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is ...
OSCAR WILDE No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
OSCAR WILDE There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
OSCAR WILDE Everything popular is wrong.
OSCAR WILDE To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
OSCAR WILDE Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is ...
OSCAR WILDE The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when one thin...
OSCAR WILDE We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows th...
OSCAR WILDE The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.
OSCAR WILDE Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by...
OSCAR WILDE Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments.
OSCAR WILDE Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look som...
OSCAR WILDE When a man has once loved a woman, he will do anything for her, except continue to love her.
OSCAR WILDE There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows...
OSCAR WILDE One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually u...
OSCAR WILDE The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.
OSCAR WILDE This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back in again.
OSCAR WILDE From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point...
OSCAR WILDE His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except ...
OSCAR WILDE An educated person's ideas of Art are drwan naturally from what Art has been, whereas the new work o...
OSCAR WILDE Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succ...
OSCAR WILDE I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.
OSCAR WILDE He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.
OSCAR WILDE Pardon me, you are not engaged to any one. When you do become engaged to some one, I, or your father...
OSCAR WILDE People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their...
OSCAR WILDE What a fuss people make about fidelity! Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It...
OSCAR WILDE They are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.
OSCAR WILDE The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.
OSCAR WILDE When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again it...
OSCAR WILDE Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin, but twenty years of marriage make her somethi...
OSCAR WILDE They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.
OSCAR WILDE On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American...
OSCAR WILDE Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
OSCAR WILDE Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, ...
OSCAR WILDE London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thorou...
OSCAR WILDE Once can survive everything nowadays, except death.
OSCAR WILDE For he who lives more lives than one: More deaths than one must die.
OSCAR WILDE I am dying beyond my means.
OSCAR WILDE To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intel...
OSCAR WILDE The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.
OSCAR WILDE I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.
OSCAR WILDE I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there...
OSCAR WILDE That does not seem to me to be a grave objection. Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London socie...
OSCAR WILDE MRS. ALLONBY: She told me yesterday, and in quite a loud voice too, that she was only eighteen. It w...
OSCAR WILDE There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they...
OSCAR WILDE Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art.
OSCAR WILDE Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your...
OSCAR WILDE Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends up blocking his retreat.
OSCAR WILDE They keep saying the right person will come along, I think mine got hit by a truck.
OSCAR WILDE I like men who have a future and women who have a past
OSCAR WILDE There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating --people who know absolutely everythin...
OSCAR WILDE Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, t...
OSCAR WILDE If one tells the truth, one is sure sooner or later to be found out
OSCAR WILDE If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never...
OSCAR WILDE Punctuality is the thief of time.
OSCAR WILDE If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.
OSCAR WILDE ...music is the perfect type of art. Music can never reveal its ultimate secret. This, also, is the ...
OSCAR WILDE Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, an...
OSCAR WILDE Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very m...
OSCAR WILDE None of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.
OSCAR WILDE Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.
OSCAR WILDE A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes.
OSCAR WILDE The basis for optimism is sheer terror.
OSCAR WILDE A pessimist is an optimist with experience
OSCAR WILDE Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life.
OSCAR WILDE The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. -Oscar Wilde.
OSCAR WILDE Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the two sexe...
OSCAR WILDE What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?
OSCAR WILDE The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so...
OSCAR WILDE The fact is, you have fallen lately, Cecily, into a bad habit of thinking for yourself. You should g...
OSCAR WILDE Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our ...
OSCAR WILDE Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
OSCAR WILDE The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-?-brac shop, all...
OSCAR WILDE Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.
OSCAR WILDE It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everythi...
OSCAR WILDE I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
OSCAR WILDE In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby ...
OSCAR WILDE He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigram on his tombstone.
OSCAR WILDE In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
OSCAR WILDE As long as war is looked upon as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked on a...
OSCAR WILDE The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, w...
OSCAR WILDE Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
OSCAR WILDE I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is si...
OSCAR WILDE To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies
OSCAR WILDE I drink to separate my body from my soul.
OSCAR WILDE He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his...
OSCAR WILDE Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is w...
OSCAR WILDE As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have it's fascination. When it is looked upon a...
OSCAR WILDE Those whom the gods love grow young.
OSCAR WILDE In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefi...
OSCAR WILDE Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lum...
OSCAR WILDE Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.
OSCAR WILDE There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and he...
OSCAR WILDE The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, wo...
OSCAR WILDE Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
OSCAR WILDE Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are re...
OSCAR WILDE To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be r...
OSCAR WILDE Nothing succeeds like success.
OSCAR WILDE When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy.
OSCAR WILDE An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.
OSCAR WILDE Work is the curse of the drinking class.
OSCAR WILDE Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
OSCAR WILDE If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.
OSCAR WILDE Time is waste of money.
OSCAR WILDE Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any othe...
OSCAR WILDE A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. It is grossly selfish to require of one'...
OSCAR WILDE All that I desire to point out is the general principle that Life imitates Art far more than Art imi...
OSCAR WILDE In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.
OSCAR WILDE Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite...
OSCAR WILDE No great artist ever sees things as they really are, if he did he would cease to be an artist.
OSCAR WILDE Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice...
OSCAR WILDE Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.
OSCAR WILDE All art is quite useless.
OSCAR WILDE It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.
OSCAR WILDE The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
OSCAR WILDE There is no such thing as a moral book or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. ...
OSCAR WILDE When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old,...
OSCAR WILDE There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the...
OSCAR WILDE The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, educ...
OSCAR WILDE Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite en...
OSCAR WILDE In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the hom...
OSCAR WILDE The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.
OSCAR WILDE I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated serious...
OSCAR WILDE Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes t...
OSCAR WILDE Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others.
OSCAR WILDE As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really d...
OSCAR WILDE Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so oc...
OSCAR WILDE Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you wi...
OSCAR WILDE The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.
OSCAR WILDE There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America.
OSCAR WILDE LORD GORING:
I am glad you have called. I am going to give you some good advice.
MRS. CHEVELEY...
OSCAR WILDE LORD GORING:
My father told me to go to bed an hour ago. I don't see why I shouldn't give you ...
OSCAR WILDE A poet can survive anything but a misprint.
OSCAR WILDE The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
OSCAR WILDE Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgi...
OSCAR WILDE Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect fo...
OSCAR WILDE Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.
OSCAR WILDE As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg.
OSCAR WILDE People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about s...
OSCAR WILDE The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is...
OSCAR WILDE As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utteranc...
OSCAR WILDE The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generatio...
OSCAR WILDE That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating t...
OSCAR WILDE Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic -- a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beau...
OSCAR WILDE I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across ... Please do not shoot t...
OSCAR WILDE I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.
OSCAR WILDE Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your...
OSCAR WILDE Hatred is blind, as well as love.
OSCAR WILDE Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go
OSCAR WILDE It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then mere...
OSCAR WILDE Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and lit...
OSCAR WILDE Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose. The nineteent...
OSCAR WILDE No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter enti...
OSCAR WILDE The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of...
OSCAR WILDE The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.
OSCAR WILDE I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that...
OSCAR WILDE And beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is ...
OSCAR WILDE It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it
OSCAR WILDE Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem ne...
OSCAR WILDE Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
OSCAR WILDE Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's ow...
OSCAR WILDE Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
OSCAR WILDE To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is...
OSCAR WILDE Experience is the name we give to our past mistakes
OSCAR WILDE Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
OSCAR WILDE Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is...
OSCAR WILDE The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of ...
OSCAR WILDE And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness...
OSCAR WILDE It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.
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