Oscar Wilde - Famous Quotes
Oscar Wilde - Irish dramatist, novelist, and poet 1854 - 1900Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.
(Oscar Wilde - Irish dramatist, novelist, and poet 1854 - 1900)
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
(Oscar Wilde - Irish dramatist, novelist, and poet 1854 - 1900)
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
(Oscar Wilde - Irish dramatist, novelist, and poet 1854 - 1900)
I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
(Oscar Wilde - Irish dramatist, novelist, and poet 1854 - 1900)
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
(Oscar Wilde - Irish dramatist, novelist, and poet 1854 - 1900)
Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
(Oscar Wilde - Irish dramatist, novelist, and poet 1854 - 1900)
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox -- the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
(Oscar Wilde - Irish dramatist, novelist, and poet 1854 - 1900)
To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.
(Oscar Wilde - Irish dramatist, novelist, and poet 1854 - 1900)
The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. The Greeks were quite right there. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture, and contemplation become almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing
(Oscar Wilde - Irish dramatist, novelist, and poet 1854 - 1900)
The basis for optimism is sheer terror.
(Oscar Wilde - Irish dramatist, novelist, and poet 1854 - 1900)
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
(Oscar Wilde - Irish dramatist, novelist, and poet 1854 - 1900)
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
(Oscar Wilde - Irish dramatist, novelist, and poet 1854 - 1900)
Action is the last refuge of those who cannot dream.
(Oscar Wilde - Irish dramatist, novelist, and poet 1854 - 1900)
Only the shallow know themselves.
(Oscar Wilde - Irish dramatist, novelist, and poet 1854 - 1900)
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.
(Oscar Wilde - Irish dramatist, novelist, and poet 1854 - 1900)
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
(Oscar Wilde - Irish dramatist, novelist, and poet 1854 - 1900)
Oscar Wilde: "I wish I had said that." Whistler: "You will, Oscar; you will.
(Oscar Wilde - Irish dramatist, novelist, and poet 1854 - 1900)
Experience...is simply the name we give our mistakes.
(Oscar Wilde - Irish dramatist, novelist, and poet 1854 - 1900)
Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex.
(Oscar Wilde - Irish dramatist, novelist, and poet 1854 - 1900)
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
(Oscar Wilde)