Oscar Wilde Quotes

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor.

I did not think I should be ever loved: do you indeed Love me so much as now you say you do?Ask of the sea-bird if it loves the sea, Ask of the roses if they love the rain, Ask of the little lark, tha...

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Now and then, however, he is horribly thoughtless, and seems to take a real delight in giving me pain. Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to some one who treats it as if it were...

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

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

Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of...

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor...

It is very wrong to kill any one[.]Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!

I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

He is fairer than the morning star, and whiter than the moon. For his body I would give my soul, and for his love I would surrender heaven.

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a level with them

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

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

Love! What is love? It's nothing. It's just a word. It doesn't exist. Only pleasure is important.

I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.

In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the ex...

Muffins should always be eaten quite calmly, as it is the only way to eat them!