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Oscar Wilde Quotes

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When people talk to me about the weather, I always feel they mean something else  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) 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 Quotes) The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses, cried the young Student; but in all my garden there is no red rose  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) 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)
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