" There is no sin except stupidity. "
Oscar Wilde Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 – 1900)
" Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. "
Oscar Wilde Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 – 1900)
" Chastity is the greatest form of perversion. "
Oscar Wilde Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 – 1900)
" Vile deeds like poison weeds bloom well in prison air, it is only what is good in man, that wastes and withers there. "
Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 – 1900)
" A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. "
Oscar Wilde Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 – 1900)
" Divorces are made in heaven. "
Oscar Wilde Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 – 1900)
" Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only the shallow people who do not judge by appearances. "
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 – 1900)
" We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless. "
Oscar Wilde, A Picture of Dorian Grey – Preface Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 – 1900)
" Philanthropic people lose all sense of Humanity, it is their distinguishing characteristic. "
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 – 1900)
" Work is the curse of the drinking class. "
Oscar Wilde Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 – 1900)
" Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event. "
Oscar Wilde Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 – 1900)
" Art is the most intense form of individualism that the world has known. "
Oscar Wilde Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 – 1900)
" All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. "
Oscar Wilde Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 – 1900)
" Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. "
Oscar Wilde Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 – 1900)
" Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others. "
Oscar Wilde Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 – 1900)
" The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray. "
Oscar Wilde Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 – 1900)
" There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love. "
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 – 1900)
" … Nature, whose sweet rains fall of just and unjust alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undetected. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole. "
Oscar Wilde, “De Profundis” Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 – 1900)
" Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace. "
Oscar Wilde Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 – 1900)
" Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow. "
Oscar Wilde Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 – 1900)
" Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. "
Oscar Wilde Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 – 1900)
" Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not. "
Oscar Wilde Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 – 1900)
" The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. "
Oscar Wilde Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 – 1900)
" Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. "
Oscar Wilde Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 – 1900)
" Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another. "
Oscar Wilde Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 – 1900)
" Dreamers can find their way by moonlight and their only punishment is that they see the dawn before the rest of the world. "
Oscar Wilde Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 – 1900)
" Beauty is a form of genius–is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon. "
Oscar Wilde Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 – 1900)
" Democracy is the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people. "
Oscar Wilde Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 – 1900)
" We can forgive a man for making a useful thing, as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless. "
Oscar Wilde Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 – 1900)
" Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. "
Oscar Wilde Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 – 1900)
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