Oscar Wilde Quotes, Past Quotes, Details Quotes

One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Past Quotes , Details Quotes

A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Hypocrite Quotes , Men Quotes

Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Funny Quotes , Positive Quotes

It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; Through Art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Art Quotes , Fear Quotes

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Relationship Quotes , Two Quotes

One is not always happy when one is good; but one is always good when one is happy.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes

An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Friendship Quotes , Funny Friend Quotes

To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Food Quotes , Oil Quotes

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Art Quotes , Serious Person Quotes

Progress is the realization of utopia.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Progress Quotes , Realization Quotes

This ghastly state of things is what you call Bunburying, I suppose? Algernon. Yes, and a perfectly wonderful Bunbury it is. The most wonderful Bunbury I have ever had in my life. Jack. Well, you've no right whatsoever to Bunbury here. Algernon. That is absurd. One has a right to Bunbury anywhere one chooses. Every serious Bunburyist knows that.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Serious Quotes , Wonderful Quotes

It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Men Quotes , Judging Quotes

It is awfully hard work doing nothing.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Hard Work Quotes , Doing Nothing Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Funny Quotes , Witty Quotes

I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Memories Quotes , People Quotes

I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Attitude Quotes

A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Men Quotes , Debt Quotes

What of Art? -It is a malady. --Love? -An Illusion. --Religion? -The fashionable substitute for Belief. --You are a sceptic. -Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith. --What are you? -To define is to limit.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Art Quotes , Limits Quotes

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Love Quotes , Funny Quotes

It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Art Quotes , Expression Quotes