Oscar Wilde Quotes

“You told me you had destroyed it." "I was wrong. It has destroyed me.”

“One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one's hearers.”

“Im Krieg machen die Starken die Schwachen zu Sklaven, im Frieden machen die Reichen die Armen zu Sklaven.”

“Nature: a place where birds fly around uncooked”

“It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.”

“We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it”

“A publisher is simply a useful middle-man.”

“One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders. Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it.”

“The only link between Literature and the Drama left to us in England at the present moment is the bill of the play.”

“To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.”

“But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins.”

“Let me be surrounded by luxury, I can do without the necessities!”

“Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so.”

“Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.”

“Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!”

“I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.”

“I made your sorrow mine also, that you might have help in bearing it.”

“It would leave no room for developments and I intend to develop in many directions.”

“Don't tell me that you have exhausted Life. When a man says that, one knows that life has exhausted him.”

“He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when we are stirred by some new emotion for which we cannot find expression.”

“The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.”

“They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.”

“Consistency is the last refuge of the unimagininative.”

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”

“When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.”