Best Oscar Wilde Words
- Your machinery is beautiful. Your society people have apologized to me for the envious ridicule with which your newspapers have referred to me. Your newspapers… Abuse
- Nature: a place where birds fly around uncooked Bird
- The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to you, often are very… Cannot Even
- There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion. Emotion
- A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes. Corn
- We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the… Bitter
- There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that… Action
- The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him. Exhausted
- Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you. Bored
- There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband. Fact
- It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions.… Action
- Bad manners make a journalist. Bad
- If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation. Bad
- Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong. Art
- It is that deep spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect. It is beautiful, it is fine, it is the noblest form… Affection
- Marriage is a long, dull meal with dessert served at the beginning. Beginning
- To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing. Great
- It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest. Goes
- All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death. All
- And now, I am dying beyond my means. (Said while sipping champagne on his deathbed.) Beyond
- We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us,… Brim
- As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will… Case
- The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth. Aim
- It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; Through Art and art only that we can shield ourselves… Actual
- Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices. Art
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