Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

Quotes

• Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.

• Science is the record of dead religions.

• Life imitates art more than art imitates life.

• There is no sin except stupidity.

• Eduaction is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

• The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.

• Art is the most intense form of individualism that the world has known.

• Imagination is a quality given to man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humaor is provided to console him from what he is.

• My wallpaper and i are fighting a duel to death. One or the other has to go.

• When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

• Being natural is simply a pose.

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

• Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.

• Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

• One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

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

• Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.

• Education is an admirable thing, but it is well worth remembering from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

• Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

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