Oscar Wilde Quotes
The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
When I think of all the harm the Bible has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
One’s real life is often the life that one does not lead.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught
Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
Beauty is a form of genius – is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.
One's past is what one is.
There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
Pleasure is Nature’s test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.
The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.
Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the results.
What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
The first duty of life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one as yet discovered.
To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life’s tragedy.
Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.
One can live for years sometimes without living at all,
and then all life comes crowding into one single hour
Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.
Children have a natural antipathy to books - handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous.
An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.
Nature, whose sweet rains fall of just and unjust alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undetected. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.
It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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.
No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
