Quotes by Oscar Wilde
Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
There is no sin except stupidity.
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative.
I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
All art is quite useless.
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Only the shallow know themselves.
If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
Yet each man kills the thing he loves, by each let this be heard, some do it with a bitter look, some with a flattering word. The coward does it with a kiss, the brave man with a sword!
