Best Oscar Wilde Sayings
- I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the… Artistic
- To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because… Assert
- Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity. Atheism
- The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others. Any
- The secret of life is in art. Art
- The British cook, for her iniquities, is a foolish woman who should be turned into a pillar of salt which she never knows how to… British
- So lets knock a couple back and make some noise Couple
- We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell. Devil
- Fashion: by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal. Becomes
- Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. Fashion
- Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not. Dressing
- To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life. Dominated
- It is art, and art only, that reveals us to ourselves. Art
- Whenever life sucks, remember you're going to die someday. Die
- Love is like a war; easy to start but hard to end and you never know where it might take you. Easy
- Give me the luxuries and I can dispense with the necessities. Dispense
- Genius is born-not paid Born
- At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been. Been
- I won't belong to a club that accepts me as a member Accepting
- Every woman is wrong until she cries. Cries
- The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility! Complete
- All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of. All
- Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner. Cannot Talk
- As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good… Absolutely
- A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime. Brutalised
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