1856-1900, British Author, Wit
It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.
Oscar Wilde – [Saints]
It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.
Oscar Wilde – [Tragedies]
It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat. They at once sought for the journalist, found him, developed him, and made him their industrious and well-paid servant. It is greatly to be regretted, for both their sakes.
Oscar Wilde – [Journalism and Journalists]
It's absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Oscar Wilde – [Charm]
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Oscar Wilde – [Love]
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
Oscar Wilde – [Friends and Friendship]
Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.
Oscar Wilde – [Self-expression]
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
Oscar Wilde – [Seriousness]
Life would be dull without them.
Oscar Wilde – [Mistakes]
Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic
Oscar Wilde – [Life and Living]
Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments.
Oscar Wilde – [Life and Living]
Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say.
Oscar Wilde – [Hobos]
Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose. The nineteenth century, as we know it, is largely an invention of Balzac.
Oscar Wilde – [Literature]
London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.
Oscar Wilde – [Wives]
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.
Oscar Wilde – [Marriage]
Lord Illingworth: All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. Mrs. Allonby: No man does. That is his.
Oscar Wilde – [Mothers]
Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.
Oscar Wilde – [Speakers and Speaking]
Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
Oscar Wilde – [Impossibility]
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act according with the dictates of reason.
Oscar Wilde – [Temper]
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Oscar Wilde – [Acting and Actors]
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