Top 10 Quotes by Oscar Wilde

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Life is like a box of terrible analogies...

One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.

A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.

When I see a spade, I call it a spade. I'm glad to say I have never seen a spade. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use it. It's the only thing he's fit for.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. Oscar W

Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude.

After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.

Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime.

What you read when you don't have to...

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

If you cannot prove a man wrong, don't panic. You can always call him names.

Really, if the lower orders don't set a good example, what on earth is the use of them?

A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.

He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best.

Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .

Where your life leads you, you must go

He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both.

Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.

Ah! somehow life is bigger after allThan any painted angel could we seeThe God that is within us!

The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life.

I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.

As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad. Oscar W

Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life.

Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.

The worst thing to do with success, is to boast about it.

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