Oscar Wilde Quotes

To most of us the real life is the life we do not lead.

To get into the best society nowadays one has either to feed people amuse people or shock people.

This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back again.

I've put my genius into my life I've only put my talent into my works.

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.

And the child smiled on the Giant, and said to him, 'You let me play once in your garden, to-day you shall come with me to my garden, which is Paradise.

Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

For a year after that was done to me I wept every day at the same hour and for the same space of time. That is not such a tragic thing as possibly it sounds to you. To those who are in prison tears ar...

Harry, said Basil Hallward, looking him straight in the face, every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasio...

I am completely penniless, and absolutely homeless. Yet there are worse things in the world than that.

I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die.

I hope you hair curls naturally, does it?Yes, darling, with a little help from others.

I never take any notice to what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.

I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then...

I tremble with pleasure when Ithink that on the very day of my leaving prison both the laburnum andthe lilac will be blooming in the gardens, and that I shall see the wind stir into restless beauty th...

If I could get back my youth, I'd do anything in the world except get up early, take exercise or be respectable.

If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.

If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.