Oscar Wilde Quotes

Bad artists always admire each other's work.

It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is fatal.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilisation.

He hadn't a single redeeming vice.

Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to poverty, but in my case the marriage is not a success.

One should always be in love. This is the reason one should never marry.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

Being idle is very hard work because everyone is against you.

It is grossly selfish to require of one's neighbour that he should think in the same way, and hold the same opinions. Why should he? If he can think, he will probably think differently. If he can not think, it is monstrous to require thought of any kind from him.

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.