Oscar Wilde Quotes

No gentleman ever has any money.

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There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain.

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It is that deep spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect. It is beautiful, it is fine, it is the noblest form of affection. There is nothing unnatural about it.

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True love is just like regular love, but with more truth.

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The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

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"Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne? I ask merely for information." "I attribute it to the superior quality of the wine, sir. I have often observed that in married households the champagne is rarely of a first-rate brand." "Good Heavens! Is marriage so demoralizing as that?" "I believe it is a very pleasant state, sir. I have had very little experience of it myself up to the present. I have only been married once. That was in consequence of a misunderstanding between myself and a young person."

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Full frontal nudity is reserved for Adam and Eve!

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Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

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Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.

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It's either the wallpaper or me. One of us has to go. [These were his dying words.]

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If you are going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh or they will kill you.

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In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

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Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art. ...because of the importance it places on the individual, their liberty, self-expression, creativity, and personal responsibility.

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Nature is always behind the age

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Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

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I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose.

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An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty.

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Sometimes, the unnecessary is necessary.

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The evil that machinery is doing is not merely in the consequence of its work but in the fact that it makes men themselves machines also.

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In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.

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