Oscar Wilde Quotes And Sayings

Life Imitates Art Far More Than Art Imitates Life.

A Man Who Does Not Think For Himself Does Not Think At All.

The Critic Has To Educate The Public; The Artist Has To Educate The Critic.

Women Love Us For Our Defects. If We Have Enough Of Them, They Will Forgive Us Everything, Even Our Gigantic Intellects.

Society Exists Only As A Mental Concept; In The Real World There Are Only Individuals.

Man Can Believe The Impossible, But Man Can Never Believe The Improbable.

True Friends Stab You In The Front.

There's Nothing In The World Like The Devotion Of A Married Woman. It's A Thing No Married Man Knows Anything About.

There Is Something Terribly Morbid In The Modern Sympathy With Pain. One Should Sympathise With The Colour, The Beauty, The Joy Of Life. The Less Said About Life's Sores The Better.

Romance Should Never Begin With Sentiment. It Should Begin With Science And End With A Settlement.

It Is The Spectator, And Not Life, That Art Really Mirrors.

An Excellent Man; He Has No Enemies; And None Of His Friends Like Him.

If A Work Of Art Is Rich And Vital And Complete, Those Who Have Artistic Instincts Will See Its Beauty, And Those To Whom Ethics Appeal More Strongly Than Aesthetics Will See Its Moral Lesson. It Will Fill The Cowardly With Terror, And The Unclean Will See In It Their Own Shame.

It Is Only By Not Paying One's Bills That One Can Hope To Live In The Memory Of The Commercial Classes.

A Critic Should Be Taught To Criticise A Work Of Art Without Making Any Reference To The Personality Of The Author.

Let Us Have No Machine-made Ornament At All; It Is All Bad And Worthless And Ugly.

Beauty Is The Only Thing That Time Cannot Harm. Philosophies Fall Away Like Sand, Creeds Follow One Another, But What Is Beautiful Is A Joy For All Seasons, A Possession For All Eternity.

There Should Be A Law That No Ordinary Newspaper Should Be Allowed To Write About Art. The Harm They Do By Their Foolish And Random Writing It Would Be Impossible To Overestimate - Not To The Artist, But To The Public, Blinding Them To All But Harming The Artist Not At All.

No Better Way Is There To Learn To Love Nature Than To Understand Art. It Dignifies Every Flower Of The Field. And, The Boy Who Sees The Thing Of Beauty Which A Bird On The Wing Becomes When Transferred To Wood Or Canvas Will Probably Not Throw The Customary Stone.

I Have A Dining Room Done In Different Shades Of White, With White Cushions Embroidered In Yellow Silk: The Effect Is Absolutely Delightful And The Room Beautiful.

Yes, There Is A Terrible Moral In 'Dorian Gray' - A Moral Which The Prurient Will Not Be Able To Find In It, But It Will Be Revealed To All Whose Minds Are Healthy. Is This An Artistic Error? I Fear It Is. It Is The Only Error In The Book.

He Has No Enemies, But Is Intensely Disliked By His Friends.

Our Ambition Should Be To Rule Ourselves, The True Kingdom For Each One Of Us; And True Progress Is To Know More, And Be More, And To Do More.

Perhaps One Of The Most Difficult Things For Us To Do Is To Choose A Notable And Joyous Dress For Men. There Would Be More Joy In Life If We Were To Accustom Ourselves To Use All The Beautiful Colours We Can In Fashioning Our Own Clothes.

Woman Begins By Resisting A Man's Advances And Ends By Blocking His Retreat.

Women Are Never Disarmed By Compliments. Men Always Are. That Is The Difference Between The Sexes.

The Only Thing To Do With Good Advice Is To Pass It On. It Is Never Of Any Use To Oneself.

It Is Better To Have A Permanent Income Than To Be Fascinating.

Perhaps, After All, America Never Has Been Discovered. I Myself Would Say That It Had Merely Been Detected.

Ordinary Riches Can Be Stolen; Real Riches Cannot. In Your Soul Are Infinitely Precious Things That Cannot Be Taken From You.

A Poet Can Survive Everything But A Misprint.