Quotes by Oscar Wilde
The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Authority is quite degrading
Mere colour, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.
And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats, None knew so well as I: For he who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die.
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women… merely adored.
A kiss may ruin a human life
Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.
This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back in again.
It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. Art
Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
Time is waste of money.
Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. Patriotism
The basis for optimism is sheer terror.
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
I don't like Switzerland; it has produced nothing but theologians and waiters.
I'm sure I don't know half the people who come to my house. Indeed, from all I hear, I shouldn't like to.
I have the simplest of tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
I may be in the gutter, but I'm looking at the stars.
When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
