164 quotes by Oscar Wilde

“I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.” — Oscar Wilde

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“If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.” — Oscar Wilde

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“The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.” — Oscar Wilde

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“What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.” — Oscar Wilde

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“It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.” — Oscar Wilde

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“As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.” — Oscar Wilde

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“All art is quite useless.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Work is the curse of the drinking classes.” — Oscar Wilde

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“I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.” — Oscar Wilde

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“One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.” — Oscar Wilde

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“All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.” — Oscar Wilde

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“It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.” — Oscar Wilde

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“No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.” — Oscar Wilde

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“The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.” — Oscar Wilde

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“The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.” — Oscar Wilde

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“In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.” — Oscar Wilde

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