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

Between men and woman there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.

One can always be kind to people one cares nothing about.

I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

There is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

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The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.

Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Bad artists always admire each others work.

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When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.

Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating; people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Only the shallow know themselves.

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

Life is too important to be taken seriously.

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