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Oscar Wilde Quotes

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The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over dressed is by being always absolutely over educated  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Oh, I love London society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what society should be  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Now don't stir. I'll be back in five minutes. And don't fall into any temptations while I am away  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) It is sweet to dance to violins when love and life are fair: to dance to flutes, to dance to lutes is delicate and rare: but it is not sweet with nimble feet to dance upon the air!  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) For a sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love; it is the faithless who know love's tragedies  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to encourage in others  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Too much work, and no vacation, deserves at least a small libation. So hail! My friends, and raise your glasses, work's the curse of the drinking classes  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) When one is in love one begins by deceiving one's self. and one ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) To get into the best society nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) It is so easy for people to have sympathy with suffering. It is so difficult for them to have sympathy with thought  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escaped and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy, and winged it with paradox  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) To many, no doubt, he will seem to be somewhat blatant and bumptious, but we prefer to regard him as being simply British  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) I seem to have heard that observation before... It has all the vitality of error and all the tediousness of an old friend  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) It is well for our vanity that we slay the criminal, for if we suffered him to live he might show us what we had gained by his crime  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act according with the dictates of reason  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight rope. When the Verities become acrobats we can judge them  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) By persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life  (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
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