Oscar Wilde Quotes

To be popular I must be mediocre.

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Let me be dressed as I will, yet flies worms and flowers exceed me still.

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For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about its comedies, and its tragedies seem to culminate in farce.

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Just be your self. Everybody else is already taken.

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However, I think anything is better than high intellectual pressure. That is the most unbecoming thing there is. It makes the noses of the young girls so particularly large.

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There is no such thing as a heterosexual male, only men who haven't met Oscar Wilde yet.

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Full frontal nudity is reserved for Adam and Eve!

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

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

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What is beautiful is a joy for all seasons.

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Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever. It is a meaningless word, too. The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

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It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world

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There are few things easier than to live badly and die well.

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After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own. Music always seems to me to produce that effect. It creates for one a past of which one has been ignorant, and fills one with a sense of sorrows that have been hidden from one’s tears.

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Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.

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Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.

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Wisdom comes with winters

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Action is limited and relative. Unlimited and absolute is the vision of him who sits at ease and watches, who walks in loneliness and dreams.

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Dear little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery.

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Charity creates a multitude of sins.

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