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Well, one must be serious abou...

Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

Disobedience is man's original...

Disobedience is man's original virtue.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

Niagara Falls is simply a vast...

Niagara Falls is simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going over the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary cliffs...The wonder would be if the water did not fall.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

I wonder who it was defined ma...

I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

When one is in love, one alway...

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

The only artists I have ever k...

The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others wr

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

Human life--that appeared to h...

Human life--that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating. Compared to it there was nothing else of any value. It was true that as one watched life in its curious crucible of pain and pleasure, one could not wear over one's face a mask of glass, nor keep the sulphurous fumes from troubling the brain and making the imagination turbid with monstrous fancies and misshapen dreams.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

Those who see any difference b...

Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

It was the passions about whos...

It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at he...

Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

Actors are so fortunate. They ...

Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or shed tears. But in real life it is different. Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. Our Guildensterns play Hamlet for us, and our Hamlets have to jest like Prince Hal. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

Women defend themselves by att...

Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

The reason we all like to thin...

The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

Pleasure is Nature's test, her...

Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

I could deny it if I liked. I ...

I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

Women, as some witty Frenchman...

Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

The secret of remaining young ...

The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

The one charm of the past is t...

The one charm of the past is that it is the past.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

Oh! it is absurd to have a har...

Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

Prism! Where is that baby?...

Prism! Where is that baby?

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

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