Oscar Wilde Quotes

Nature constantly imitates art.

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A mutual misunderstanding.

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Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.

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Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.

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After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.

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The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

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Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. Gwendolen. [Satirically.] I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.

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The only thing I can't resist is temptation.

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Just as the philanthropist is the nuisance of the ethical sphere, so the nuisance of the intellectual sphere is the man who is so occupied in trying to educate others, that he has never had any time to educate himself.

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I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

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We Irish will never achieve anything; but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks

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I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

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Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.

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MRS ALLONBY Is she such a mystery? LORD ILLINGWORTH She is more than a mystery - she is a mood. MRS ALLONBY Moods don't last. LORD ILLINGWORTH It is their chief charm.

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To be popular one must be a mediocrity." "Not with Women," said the duchess, shaking her head; "and women rule the world. I assure you we can't bear mediocrities. We women, as someone says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all." "It seems to me that we never do anything else," murmered Dorian.

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We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it

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A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. ...Art is the most intense mode of Individualism that the world has known. I am inclined to say that it is the only real mode of Individualism that the world has known. ...Art is Individualism.

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I can resist everything except temptation.

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Never so sweet a repast as the Reaper's when you tread upon the threshold of a Quiznos.

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A burnt child loves the fire.

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