Inspiring Quotes by Oscar Wilde - Page 2

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"It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned"

"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship"

"Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you"

"Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike"

"Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more"

"Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching"

"Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future"

"I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything"

"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being"

"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught"

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken"

"Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about"

"The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray"

"Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects"

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing"

"Who, being loved, is poor?"

"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong"

"There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose"

"Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative"

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying"

"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing"

"Hatred is blind, as well as love"

"It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly"

"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all"

"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead"

"Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess"

"Only the shallow know themselves"

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation"

"Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit"

"The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you"

"A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies"

"Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds"

"Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much"

"Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there"

"Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing"

"A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament"

"A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal"

"A poet can survive everything but a misprint"

"A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction"

"The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world"

"The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates"

"The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means"

"The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything"

"The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself"

"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written"

"There is no sin except stupidity"

"There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies"

"There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us"

"It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection"

"No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly"

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