Oscar Wilde Quotes
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Oscar Wilde
Irish poet
Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
Oscar Wilde
Irish poet
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
Oscar Wilde
Irish poet
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.
Oscar Wilde
Irish poet
Alas, I am dying beyond my means.
Oscar Wilde
Irish poet
It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
Oscar Wilde
Irish poet
Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Oscar Wilde
Irish poet
The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
Oscar Wilde
Irish poet
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Oscar Wilde
Irish poet
The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
Oscar Wilde
Irish poet
Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Oscar Wilde
Irish poet
A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
Oscar Wilde
Irish poet
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
Oscar Wilde
Irish poet
Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
Irish poet
Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
Oscar Wilde
Irish poet
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
Oscar Wilde
Irish poet
Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
Oscar Wilde
Irish poet
In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
Oscar Wilde
Irish poet
Charity creates a multitude of sins.
Oscar Wilde
Irish poet
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
Oscar Wilde
Irish poet
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