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

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.

She is a peacock in everything but beauty.

America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up.

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.

Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.

I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

These days man knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is fatal.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons.

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling I have always cultivated.

True friends stab you in the front.

One can survive anything these days, except death, and live down anything except a good reputation.

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