Oscar Wilde
No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
-Oscar Wilde
age
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
-Oscar Wilde
art
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
-Oscar Wilde
art
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
-Oscar Wilde
art
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
-Oscar Wilde
art
I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
-Oscar Wilde
art
It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
-Oscar Wilde
art
All art is quite useless.
-Oscar Wilde
art
The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
-Oscar Wilde
art
It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
-Oscar Wilde
art
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
art
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
-Oscar Wilde
attitude
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.
-Oscar Wilde
beauty
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
-Oscar Wilde
best
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
-Oscar Wilde
best
Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
-Oscar Wilde
courage
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
-Oscar Wilde
death
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
-Oscar Wilde
death
Biography lends to death a new terror.
-Oscar Wilde
death
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.
-Oscar Wilde
dreams
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-Oscar Wilde
education
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
experience
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-Oscar Wilde
experience
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
-Oscar Wilde
failure
Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
-Oscar Wilde
family
I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.
-Oscar Wilde
food
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
-Oscar Wilde
forgiveness
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
-Oscar Wilde
forgiveness
True friends stab you in the front.
-Oscar Wilde
friendship
An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him.
-Oscar Wilde
friendship
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
-Oscar Wilde
friendship
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
-Oscar Wilde
friendship
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
-Oscar Wilde
friendship
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
-Oscar Wilde
future
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
-Oscar Wilde
god
I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
-Oscar Wilde
god
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