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

The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

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.

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.

A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?

Everything popular is wrong.

Vile deeds like poison weeds bloom well in prison air, it is only what is good in man, that wastes and withers there.

I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

The English country gentleman galloping after a fox -- the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.

It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet's dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.

Oh! don't use big words. They mean so little.

The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

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