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Oscar Wilde Quotes

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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) Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something  (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) The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman - like habits, supplies their demands  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Misfortunes one can endure - they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults - ah! There is the sting of life  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) It is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth  (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) The things of nature do not really belong to us; we should leave them to our children as we have received them  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Pathology is rapidly becoming the basis of sensational literature, and in art, as in politics, there is a great future for monsters  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Anybody can write a three volumed novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) All art is immoral... For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life, and of that practical organization of life that we call society  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) The English mind is always in a rage. The intellect of the race is wasted in the sordid and stupid quarrels of second rate politicians or third rate theologians  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) The only difference between a caprice and a life long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age. I consider that for any man of culture to accept the standard of his age is a form of the grossest immorality  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary. When her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) We are dominated by Journalism. In America the President reigns for four years, and journalism governs for ever and ever  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) The fact is, that the public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) We [women] have a much better time than they [men] have. There are far more things forbidden to us than are forbidden to them  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about, nowadays, saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) One knows so well the popular idea of health. The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others  (Oscar Wilde Quotes) Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development  (Oscar Wilde Quotes)
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