Oscar Wilde Quotes

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Oscar Wilde

Profession : Poet

Birth : October 16, 1854

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

Oscar Wilde

Yes, there is a terrible moral in 'Dorian Gray' - a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.

Oscar Wilde

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

Oscar Wilde

In married life three is company and two none.

Oscar Wilde

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.

Oscar Wilde

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

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

Oscar Wilde

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

Oscar Wilde

All art is quite useless.

Oscar Wilde

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Oscar Wilde

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

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

Oscar Wilde

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

Oscar Wilde

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

Oscar Wilde

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

Oscar Wilde

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

Oscar Wilde

If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.

Oscar Wilde

I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.

Oscar Wilde

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

Oscar Wilde