Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854-10-16 – 1900-11-30) was an Irish playwright, poet and author of essays and novels.

Found 239 thoughts of Oscar Wilde

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends up blocking his retreat.

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

All art is quite useless.

Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.

The mind of a the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigram on his tombstone.

Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.

The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.

The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse all our serious requests, and gratify every one of our whims. He should encourage us to have caprices, and forbid us to have missions. He should always say much more than he means, and always mean much more than he says.

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

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The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to make one's every dream a reality.

He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.

It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

I think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Argument are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.

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