Facts Quotes by Oscar Wilde

I know. In fact, I am never wrong.

— Oscar Wilde

In fact, I am never wrong.

— Oscar Wilde

Truth is independent of facts always.

— Oscar Wilde

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

— Oscar Wilde

I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously,…

— Oscar Wilde

Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.

— Oscar Wilde

In fact, now you mention the subject, I have been very bad in my own small way. I don't think you should…

— Oscar Wilde

I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having…

— Oscar Wilde

The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become…

— Oscar Wilde

The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the…

— Oscar Wilde

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is…

— Oscar Wilde

The evil that machinery is doing is not merely in the consequence of its work but in the fact that it makes…

— Oscar Wilde

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is…

— Oscar Wilde

Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate,…

— Oscar Wilde

I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously,…

— Oscar Wilde

Lady Bracknell. Good afternoon, dear Algernon, I hope you are behaving very well. Algernon. I’m feeling very well, Aunt Augusta. Lady Bracknell.…

— Oscar Wilde

Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts…

— Oscar Wilde

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is…

— Oscar Wilde

The real weakness of England lies, not in incomplete armaments or unfortified coasts, not in the poverty that creeps through sunless lanes,…

— Oscar Wilde

The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art.…

— Oscar Wilde

It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for…

— Oscar Wilde

The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make,…

— Oscar Wilde

She has form," he said to himself, as he walked away through the grove - "that cannot be denied to her; but…

— Oscar Wilde

What a silly thing love is!' said the student as he walked away. 'It is not half as useful as logic, for…

— Oscar Wilde

There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future…

— Oscar Wilde

The Governor was strong upon The Regulation Act: The Doctor said that Death was but A scientific fact: And twice a day…

— Oscar Wilde

Christ did not die to save people, but to teach people how to save each other. This is, I have no doubt,…

— Oscar Wilde

The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the…

— Oscar Wilde

The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.

— Oscar Wilde

Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.

— Oscar Wilde

Beauty ...is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver…

— Oscar Wilde

In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people… The Japanese…

— Oscar Wilde

In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure…

— Oscar Wilde

In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and…

— Oscar Wilde

Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. It was the imagination that set remorse to dog…

— Oscar Wilde

I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about…

— Oscar Wilde

They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint…

— Oscar Wilde