Oscar Wilde Quotes And Sayings

If One Plays Good Music, People Don't Listen And If One Plays Bad Music People Don't Talk.

The World Is Divided Into Two Classes, Those Who Believe The Incredible, And Those Who Do The Improbable.

The Good Ended Happily, And The Bad Unhappily. That Is What Fiction Means.

As Long As A Woman Can Look Ten Years Younger Than Her Own Daughter, She Is Perfectly Satisfied.

If One Could Only Teach The English How To Talk, And The Irish How To Listen, Society Here Would Be Quite Civilized.

Everybody Who Is Incapable Of Learning Has Taken To Teaching.

Selfishness Is Not Living As One Wishes To Live, It Is Asking Others To Live As One Wishes To Live.

The Well Bred Contradict Other People. The Wise Contradict Themselves.

Whenever A Man Does A Thoroughly Stupid Thing, It Is Always From The Noblest Motives.

What Is A Cynic? A Man Who Knows The Price Of Everything And The Value Of Nothing.

I Like Persons Better Than Principles, And I Like Persons With No Principles Better Than Anything Else In The World.

One's Real Life Is So Often The Life That One Does Not Lead.

There Is A Luxury In Self-reproach. When We Blame Ourselves We Feel No One Else Has A Right To Blame Us.

I Choose My Friends For Their Good Looks, My Acquaintances For Their Good Characters, And My Enemies For Their Intellects. A Man Cannot Be Too Careful In The Choice Of His Enemies.

There Is Only One Class In The Community That Thinks More About Money Than The Rich, And That Is The Poor. The Poor Can Think Of Nothing Else.

You Will Always Be Fond Of Me. I Represent To You All The Sins You Have Never Had The Courage To Commit.

Men Marry Because They Are Tired; Women, Because They Are Curious; Both Are Disappointed.

She Is A Peacock In Everything But Beauty.

Most People Are Other People. Their Thoughts Are Someone Else's Opinions, Their Lives A Mimicry, Their Passions A Quotation.

Art Is Individualism, And Individualism Is A Disturbing And Disintegrating Force.

The Function Of The Artist Is To Invent, Not To Chronicle.

The Spirit Of An Age May Be Best Expressed In The Abstract Ideal Arts, For The Spirit Itself Is Abstract And Ideal.

Beauty Has As Many Meanings As Man Has Moods. Beauty Is The Symbol Of Symbols. Beauty Reveals Everything, Because It Expresses Nothing. When It Shows Us Itself, It Shows Us The Whole Fiery-coloured World.

I Think It Is Perfectly Natural For Any Artist To Admire Intensely And Love A Young Man. It Is An Incident In The Life Of Almost Every Artist.

All Art Is At Once Surface And Symbol. Those Who Go Beneath The Surface Do So At Their Peril. Those Who Read The Symbol Do So At Their Peril. It Is The Spectator, And Not Life, That Art Really Mirrors. Diversity Of Opinion About A Work Of Art Shows That The Work Is New, Complex And Vital.

Art Should Never Try To Be Popular. The Public Should Try To Make Itself Artistic.

Technique Is Really Personality. That Is The Reason Why The Artist Cannot Teach It, Why The Pupil Cannot Learn It, And Why The Aesthetic Critic Can Understand It.

Memory... Is The Diary That We All Carry About With Us.

In Designing The Scenery And Costumes For Any Of Shakespeare's Plays, The First Thing The Artist Has To Settle Is The Best Date For The Drama. This Should Be Determined By The General Spirit Of The Play More Than By Any Actual Historical References Which May Occur In It.

In Its Primary Aspect, A Painting Has No More Spiritual Message Than An Exquisite Fragment Of Venetian Glass. The Channels By Which All Noble And Imaginative Work In Painting Should Touch The Soul Are Not Those Of The Truths Of Lives.

I Am Not Young Enough To Know Everything.

Men Always Want To Be A Woman's First Love - Women Like To Be A Man's Last Romance.

Nothing Can Cure The Soul But The Senses, Just As Nothing Can Cure The Senses But The Soul.

The Mark Of All Good Art Is Not That The Thing Done Is Done Exactly Or Finely, For Machinery May Do As Much, But That It Is Worked Out With The Head And The Workman's Heart.

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 Exercise Of Ingenuity, The Application Of Science To The Work Of Man, Is There The Shortest Road To Wealth.

Life Is Never Fair, And Perhaps It Is A Good Thing For Most Of Us That It Is Not.

Morality Is Simply The Attitude We Adopt Towards People Whom We Personally Dislike.

If There Was Less Sympathy In The World, There Would Be Less Trouble In The World.

Life Is Far Too Important A Thing Ever To Talk Seriously About.

The Only Difference Between The Saint And The Sinner Is That Every Saint Has A Past, And Every Sinner Has A Future.

The World Is A Stage, But The Play Is Badly Cast.

Moderation Is A Fatal Thing. Nothing Succeeds Like Excess.

The True Mystery Of The World Is The Visible, Not The Invisible.

I Am The Only Person In The World I Should Like To Know Thoroughly.

There Are Only Two Kinds Of People Who Are Really Fascinating - People Who Know Absolutely Everything, And People Who Know Absolutely Nothing.

I Can Stand Brute Force, But Brute Reason Is Quite Unbearable. There Is Something Unfair About Its Use. It Is Hitting Below The Intellect.

The Advantage Of The Emotions Is That They Lead Us Astray.

Nothing, Indeed, Is More Dangerous To The Young Artist Than Any Conception Of Ideal Beauty: He Is Constantly Led By It Either Into Weak Prettiness Or Lifeless Abstraction: Whereas To Touch The Ideal At All, You Must Not Strip It Of Vitality.

Those Who Find Ugly Meanings In Beautiful Things Are Corrupt Without Being Charming. This Is A Fault.

Art Never Harms Itself By Keeping Aloof From The Social Problems Of The Day: Rather, By So Doing, It More Completely Realises For Us That Which We Desire.