Quotes By Oscar Wilde

I have nothing to declare except my genuis.

I am not young enough to know everything.

Only the shallow know themselves.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

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.

I can resist everything except temptation.

An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

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

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.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.