Oscar Wilde Quotes

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

Moderation is a fatal thing: nothing succeeds like excess.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves,By each let this be heard,Some do it with a bitter look,Some with a flattering word,The koward does it with a kiss,The brave man with a sword!

The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.

To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual. .

One can always recognize women who trust their husbands. They look so thoroughly unhappy.

I'm sure I don't know half the people who come to my house. Indeed, from all I hear, I shouldn't like to.

Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.

Pardon me, you are not engaged to any one. When you do become engaged to some one, I, or your father, should his health permit him, will inform you of the fact. An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant, as the case may be. It is hardly a matter that she could be allowed to arrange for herself.