Quotes by Oscar Wilde

In fact, now you mention the subject, I have been very bad in my own small way.I dont think you should be so proud of that, though I am sure it must have been very pleasant.

LADY BRACKNELLI had some crumpets with Lady Harbury, who seems to me to be living entirely for pleasure now.ALGERNONI hear her hair has turned quite gold from grief.

I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb.

The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives.

One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.

My gods dwell in temples made with hands.

I quite agree with Dr. Nordaus assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.

And Beauty is a form of Genius - is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation.

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

Dont be led astray into the paths of virtue.

No: a poor man who is ungrateful, unthrifty, discontented and rebellious, is probably a real personality, and has much in him...As for the virtuous poor...they have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very poor pottage.

His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

People cry out against the sinner, yet it is not the sinful, but the stupid, who are our shame. There is no sin except stupidity.

The moon in her chariot of pearl

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being always absolutely over-educated.

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result.

Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.And falsehoods the truths of other people.Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.