Oscar Wilde Quotes

Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Irish Dramatist
Born: Oct 16, 1854
Died: Nov 30, 1900
Art Good Life Man Nothing World
Related authors: Brendan Behan Brian Friel Charles Macklin George Bernard Shaw George Farquhar Hugh Leonard Lady Gregory
Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to. Oscar Wilde
Strength You Courage Think Tell Weakness Temptation Temptations Terrible Yield Yields Which Really Requires
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. Oscar Wilde
Journalism Between Read Difference Literature
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds. Oscar Wilde
Ambition Germ Proceeds Which Growth
Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it. Oscar Wilde
Personality Critic Pupil Learn Understand Aesthetic Artist Cannot Really Teach Reason Why Technique
It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art. Oscar Wilde
Art Admire Only Schools Equally Who
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing. Oscar Wilde
People Nothing Everything Kinds Only Absolutely Absolutely Everything Absolutely Nothing Know Really Who Fascinating Two
Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. Oscar Wilde
World Others Calls Deceiving Romance
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction. Oscar Wilde
Work Man Woman Face His Autobiography Fiction Her
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information. Oscar Wilde
Sad Nowadays Sad Thing Very Information Little Useless Thing
The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves. Oscar Wilde
Wise People Other Well Contradict Themselves Bred
I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect. Oscar Wilde
Unfair Unbearable About Something Brute Brute Force Force Intellect Hitting Quite Stand Use Reason Below
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Oscar Wilde
Life Art Mirrors Really Spectator
Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination. Oscar Wilde
Art Good People Bad People Good People Imagination Bad Variety Point Point Of View Colour Studies Stir Represent View Strangeness Reason Fascinating
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. Oscar Wilde
Society Would Would-Be Only Civilized Could Talk How Irish Listen Quite Teach English Here
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. Oscar Wilde
Beautiful Ugly Will Object Look Conditions Certain
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Oscar Wilde
Beautiful Fault Ugly Those Find Corrupt Charming Beautiful Things Without Being Meanings Who Things
There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad. Oscar Wilde
Bad Equally Mob Authority Separate Monarch Necessity
Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. Oscar Wilde
Too Late People Mistakes Sense Too Late Only Never Most Sort Discover Die Common Common Sense Regrets Things Creeping
There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love. Oscar Wilde
Love People Emotions About Something Always To Love Ridiculous Whom
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies. Oscar Wilde
Man Enemies Too His Choice Careful
I have nothing to declare except my genius. Oscar Wilde
Genius Nothing Except Declare
In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth. Oscar Wilde
Work Crazy Man Disappointment Science Wealth Invention Poverty Too Honoured Inventor Road Almost Exercise America Ends Regarded Shortest Ingenuity Forthcoming Help England Many Application
How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive. Oscar Wilde
Man Marriage Cigarettes Ruins More How Demoralizing Expensive Far
There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us. Oscar Wilde
Blame Luxury Else Ourselves No-One Feel Us Right
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. Oscar Wilde
Man Animal Temper Rational He Always Loses His Accordance Dictates Act Reason Who
Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world. Oscar Wilde
Man World Beauty Nothing Everything Moods Because Reveals Itself Us Meanings Many Whole Shows Expresses Symbol Symbols
Load more quotes

No more Oscar Wilde quotes

Haven't find the right quote? Try quotes from authors related to Oscar Wilde.

About
Site pages
Top Quotes
Authors
Today's birthdays
Copyright © Quotesia 2025