Quotes by Oscar Wilde
Those whom the gods love grow young.
Everything popular is wrong.
He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.
Who, being loved, is poor?
It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
Some of these people need ten years of therapy -ten sentences of mine do not equal ten years of therapy.
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.
There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
