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Oscar Wilde
Education is an...
Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
There is no...
There is no sin except stupidity.
Source: Gilbert, in The Critic as Artist, pt. 2...
No work of...
No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.
I have found...
I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful...
The ugly and...
The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they...
It is because...
It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its...
What is mind...
What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?
Source: Gilbert, in The Critic...
Simple pleasures ....
Simple pleasures . . . are the last refuge of the complex.
Source: A Woman of No...
There is nothing...
There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything...
Scandal: gossip made...
Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality.
Source: Cecil Graham, in Lady...
Nothing that is...
Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Source: Gilbert, in The Critic as...
Society often forgives...
Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
Source:...
Every portrait that...
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the...
Each man kills...
Each man kills the thing he loves.
Source: 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol' [For...
If this is...
If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.
Whatever, in fact,...
Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to...
Anybody can write...
Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and...
Whatever harsh criticisms...
Whatever harsh criticisms may be passed on the construction of her sentences, she at least possesses that one touch of...
LORD ILLINGWORTH. The...
LORD ILLINGWORTH. The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden.
MRS ALLONBY. It ends with...
All charming people,...
All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.