Oscar Wilde Quotes

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognizes infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it.

One should never make one's debut with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.

It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak. They a.

He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you?

The English public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.

Yes; the public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

In America, the President reigns for four years, and journalism governs for ever and ever.

A poet can survive anything but a misprint.

The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.